A TRADE TRICK.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 13. At the Magistrates Court to-day, Margaret ±tlyth, Tlios. Clapham and Edward Fitzgerald, licensees of separate hotels, were charged with having applied a false trade description to whisky contained ill hollies and sold by them. Counsel for the police stated that the information had been laid to test whether it was admissable for publioans to fill up empty case whisky bottles with draught whisky and sell it as of .the brand appearing on the bottles. Whisky purporting to be of two well-known brands had been purchased, but when analysed it was shown to differ materially from the standard.
Counsel for defence s-ibmitted that the Act had no application to putting liquor in bottles and selling it in nips over the counter. It only applied to selling full bottles.
Counsel for the police said one object of the prosecution was to show the trade that this practice must stop. Ihe Magistrate reserved his decision.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81848, 15 September 1906, Page 2
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161A TRADE TRICK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81848, 15 September 1906, Page 2
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