NOT TRUE TO LABEL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 276, 16 July 1932, Page 5

NOT TRUE TO LABEL

(Press. Assn.

AUCKLAND HOTEL-KEEPERS PROSECUTED BY DEPT.

— By Telegraph — Copyright) .

AUCKLAND, Friday. Three licensees of Auckland hotels were prosecuted by the Department of Health to-day, for alleged breaches of Section 210 of the. Licensing Act, 1908. The defendants were, John Reilly, of the Royal Hotel, Ernest Roy Baddily, formerly of the Rising Sun Hotel, and Charles Flett, of the Commercial Hotel. It was alleged that they had had in their possession whisky bottles with labels affixed, and that without destroying the labels, they had made use of the bottles for the. purpose of bottling liquor for sale. All pleaded not guilty. The Government analyst gave evidence regarding a case of whisky taken from the Royal Hotel. "I am satisfied by the evidence that the whisky was neither Black and White nor Perfection," said the Magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKeen. "It is true the defendants deny the charges, but I cannot believe that the whisky got into the bottles in any other way than through the defendants or their employees." Reilly was fined £25 on one charge and £20, the minimum prescribed by law, on the other. He was also ordered to pay £8 18s lld costs. Similar evidence was heard in the cases against Baddily and Flett, both of whom denied all knowledge of how the labelled bottles came to contain the whisky. Baddily was fined £20 on each of three charges, and ordered to pay £10 2s 6d costs, and Flett was fined £20 on each of two charges with costs totalling £7 17s lld.