DOMINION NEWS.
STRONG HOP BEER; By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, Feb. 11. Arising out of the recent seizure of a large quantity of hop beer, Innes and Co., of Hamilton, have been fined £3O and £2B 8s Bd costs for a breach of the Finance Act, in that they brewed beer without having kept a brewer's book. Analysis showed that the hop beer brewed by defendants ranged from 3.0 to 6,30 per cent, of proof spirit. Consequently :t yas held that the beer should be subject to duty. Defendants attributed the excess of alcohol to ;the use of free sugar instead of saccharine, which •was almost impossible to obtain 011 account of the war, it being chiefly a German manufacture. The magistrate held that the defendants were careless, and must have known the fermentation effect of free sugar. FOUND DEAD. Napier, Feb. 11. Renatus Triggs Wearner, aged 50,, •newspaper publisher, was found on his lawn this morning with his throat cut. An inquest will be held to-day
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1916, Page 7
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166DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1916, Page 7
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