DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1928, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—P.er Press Association.)

LICENSEE PINED £l5O. AUCKLAND, Aug. 27. For having in his possession bottles bearing tine© well-known labels ami, without removing the labels, using the bottles for rebottling liquor for sale, Andrew Beggs, late licensee of the Masonic Hotel, Devonport, was lined £lso—£so on each charge—at the Police Court. Nlr Hubble, who appeared for the Health Department, described Beggs’ offence as serious, as it was del iterate, and following two previous convictions of a. similar nature. On July 2nd. two Health Department Inspectors liought two bottles of beer at the hotel. While drinking the beer in the bar, they noticed that the bottles were sealed with plain tops, instead of being labelled with the brand that was on the bottle. Their suspicions were aroused and they obtained samples of 'three bottles, each of three brands of beer, all the nine bottles being sealed with plain tops. An analysis showed that in each case the beer in all. the bottles was substantially the same. An analysis of the' brands of beer they purported to he showed considerable differences. “It is a profitable undertaking,” concluded Mr Hubble, “ns draught beer is only half the price of the battled variety.’’ For Beggs, Mr MacVcagh said that ,he had a free house, with permission to rebottle from draught, and that possibly, in the course of this process, the assistants had omitted to remove the labels from the Ixittles brought, in the press of business. “I am of opinion that Boggs must have known something of what was going on,’’ said Mr Levin, S.Af, as he imposed the fine of £l5O.

1111 J. BEHAN’S CAlt WRECKED. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 27. Shortly after seven o’clock on Saturday evening, a sodan motor car, owned by Mr James Bohan of Edgowarc Road, was .stolen from Manchester Street. On Sunday the car w found upside down and badly damaged on the old Zig Zag Road between Lyttelton and Sumner. It had evidciiflv careered down the hank from the higher road above. The theory is that joyriders deliberately damaged it in this way when they had finished with it.