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■to the importer. Any incorrect description on the label would be a breach of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act. If it were practicable, we think that the statement of the strength both by volume and by proof spirit on the contents of the bottles imported would be advisable. 462. (a) Another complaint is that there is not sufficient liaison between the Health and the Police Departments in connection with labelling (R. 6650 and 6651). The position is that alcoholic liquor is a food under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908. The regulations under that Act (N.Z. Gazette, 1924, Vol. 11, p. 1505) specify particulars to be placed on labels. Regulation (2) specifies the particulars generally and includes particulars of the name and. address of the manufacturer or seller. Presumably the bottler is usually included by these words, but it is possible he may not be. Regulation 16 exempts the labels on the packages of certain foods, including alcoholic liquors which are subject to Customs duty, from the necessity of stating the weight, number, or volume of the contents. Regulations 76 to 80 inclusive make special provisions regarding wine, carbonated wine, medicated wine, quinine tonic wine, and quinine tonic waters and the labelling of these liquors. The Health Department is charged with the administration of these regulations and must therefore make inspections in order to ascertain whether they are observed. (b) Under section 209 of the Licensing Act, 1908, the police are concerned to see that any labels for labelling bottles containing liquor must have on them the words " Bottled in New Zealand " and the name of the bottler. Under section 210, the police are concerned to see that labels on bottles are destroyed before the bottles are used for bottling liquor for sale. (c) Regulations have also been made under the Health Act, 1920, to prevent the contamination of food during manufacture and sale (N.Z. Gazette, 1924, Vol. 11, p. 1710). These regulations deal with the preparation and storage of food and with the bottling of beverages. The Health Department is charged with the duty of enforcing these regulations and must therefore make inspection of premises in order to ascertain whether they are observed. 463. If practicable, it would be convenient if the supervision of all processes which went on at approximately the same time were under one control—e.g., the bottling, with which the Health Department is concerned, may be followed immediately by the labelling, with which both the Health Department and the Police Department are at present concerned, in premises with the inspection of which the Health Department is concerned. The trade is in favour of all proper sanitary and police precautions. PART VII.—MISCHIEFS RELATING TO THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CHAPTER 21.—AFTER-HOURS TRADING 464. Section 190 of the Licensing Act, 1908, makes it an offence, inter alia, for any person who during the time at which licensed premises are required to be closed sells any liquor in such premises or allows any liquor, although purchased before the hours of closing, to be consumed in such premises. The penalty may not exceed £lO for a first offence or £2O for any subsequent offence. Section 194 of the Act provides that any person found on licensed premises during closing-hours is liable to a fine not exceeding £2 " unless he satisfies the Court that he was an inmate, servant, or lodger on such premises or a bona fide traveller, or that otherwise his presence on such premises was not in breach of the provisions of this Act with respect to the closing of licensed premises." 465. Regulation 3 of the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations 1942 (No. 2} (1942/186), made on the 22nd June, 1942, creates the same offences, but goes further in these respects : (a) by including sale or supply in a chartered club ; and (6) by imposing a penalty of not less than £2 nor more than £lO upon any person who at any time during closing-hours purchases or consumes any . liquor in any licensed premises

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