LIQUOR IN TEA ROOMS
Per Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Police Court to-day, Leah and l'anny Myers, occupiers of tea-rooms in the Octagon, were charged with illegally selling liquor. The evidence by the police was that two men were sitting at ii tabic with a bottle of beer between them, and that three Others consumed another bottle of beer, a search by the police the same night resulting in the Hiding of thirteen bottles of beer, a bottle of whisky, ana a bottle partly lull of schnapps, also nine empty beer bottles and one empty whisky bottle, i'or the defence it was contended that the liquor was kept for the use of the lamily. rhe case against Fanny Myers was dismissed, the evidence showin" that she had no interest in the businejs" and that against the other deleudant was adjourned for a week to enable the Magistrate (Mr. Widdowson) to inspect defendant s premises.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2
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156LIQUOR IN TEA ROOMS Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2
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