LIQUOR IN TEA-ROOMS
PROPRIETRESS FINED SCOTTISH SOCIETY CONCERT Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. 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 the Scottish Society smoke concert, and counsel for the defendant said that there was no suggestion that the function was disorderly. Defendant knew beer had been brought into the place, but it would have been impossible for her to have prevented the Scotsmen from drinking it. even if she had known of the restriction. When questioned by the constable, defendant had said she was unaware of any restriction in regard to the consumption of liquor. The magistrate said a nominal penalty would meet the case, as the section under which the charge was made was not very widely known and it rare to find prosecutions brought under it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 1
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