HOTELKEEPER FINED
LIQUOR NOT TRUE TO LABEL
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
PALMERSTON NORTH, April 29. Charged with exposing for sale, liquor not true to label, S. W. Evans, an hotel-keeper was fined £25 on a charge relating to gin and £ol) on a second charge relating to whisky. Counsel lor defendant said the gin contained one per cent, more alcohol than it should. Other gin was probably mixed accidentally. The whisky was overprool. Some employee had probably filled a branded bottle with draught whisky. Afarv Stonehouse, on a charge relating to gin not true to label, was lined £25, counsel saying some employee had probably taken an unauthorised nip and tilled the bottle with soda, accounting for acidity in the gin,
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1929, Page 5
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121HOTELKEEPER FINED Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1929, Page 5
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