THE LICENSING ACT
ALLEGED BREACHES. (By Telegraph—Presß Association.) IXVERCARGILL, Last Night. Robert Stewart, licenseo of the Club Hotel, and Michael John Crowe, licensee of the Bay View Hotel, both of the Bluff, were charged to-day with allowing a person under 22 years of age to bo supplied with liquor. Richard Finnerty, barman at the Club, and Donald Cameron and Mary Daniells, employed in the bar at Bay View, were conjointly charged with serving a person under 21 years of ago with liquor'. The defence was that the persons sHpplying the liquor were under the impression that the youths were over the age limit. The Magistrate said that the mistake was -made bv the bar employees, but licensees were responsible. Although m this case they were morally innocent, barmen or barmaids who made such mistakes ought to pay their own fines. It was clearly evident that a broach had been committed, and he would give his decision in a few days.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10718, 12 September 1912, Page 5
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160THE LICENSING ACT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10718, 12 September 1912, Page 5
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