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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 373, 16 April 1908, Page 3

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Dunedin, April 14. At the police Court to-day Leah Myers, keeper of refreshment rooms, was charged with sending a child under 13 years of age to a licensed house for beer. Defendant admitted sending the boy with a note to the holder of a bottle license, ordering six pint bottles of stout, but the boy lost the note and the money. Mr Hanlau, for the defendant, asked for a dismissal on the ground that a store holding a bottle license was not a licensed house within the meaning of the Act. The magistrate (Mr Widdowson) said the point bad not been raised before, and the decision would be reserved. George Raltley, employed by John Peterson, holder of bottle license, was charged with selling liquor to a child under 13 years of age. Defendant said no stout on sale was labelled as described by the boy, and he had no recollection of the boy obtaining beer. Judgment was reserved. New Plymouth, April 4. At the annual meeting of the Taranaki No-License Teague tonight, a resolution was carried that it be a recommendation to all no license councils and leagues to to make the Prince of Wales’ Birthday a uo-license meeting day throughout the Dominion.