BREACH OF LICENSING ACT.
TEA-ROOM PROPRIETRESS PINED. Wellington, Yesterday. For allowing liquor to be consumed in her tea-rooms during hours when licensed premises were required to be closed, Joan Tait was to-day fined £l. The rooms were in use at the time for a Scotish Society smoke concert. Counsel for the defendant said there was no suggestion that the function was of a disorderly nature. Defendant knew that beer had been brought into the place, but it would have been impossible for her to have prevented Scotsmen from drinking it, even if she had known of the restriction. When questioned by a constable, the defendant had said that she was unaware of any restriction in regard to the consumption of liquor. The Magistrate said that a nominal penalty would meet the case, as the section under which the charge was made was not very widely known. It was somewhat rare to find prosecutions brought under it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3791, 12 May 1928, Page 2
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156BREACH OF LICENSING ACT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3791, 12 May 1928, Page 2
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