CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLICAN.
A MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT. ’ Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 22. At the Police Court, James Geddes, licensee of the Douglas Hotel, was charged before Mr Widdowsou, S.M., with unlawfully permitting druukenhes'i on liis licensed nremises, and with selling liquor to persons already in a state of intoxication. The case wap dismissed, on the ground that there was no evidence that the person obtained the liquor which made him drunk at the hotel in question. The Magistrate said, however, this case emphasised tlie prevalence of juvenile drinking. It showed a deplorable state of tilings in regard to the young men of Dunedin and to the'young men of the Dominion. To ail hotelkeepers lie would say that it would be better for them if they gave yoling fellows only one drink. That young men were entitled to drink there could be no question, but it would be better to serve them with only one drink and no more.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 23 March 1908, Page 2
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158CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLICAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 23 March 1908, Page 2
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