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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 21 November 1863.
Important to Wine Retailers.
At the Police Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Carttar attended on behalf of Mr.
William Leach, landlord of the "Devonshire House" beer shop, Greenwich Road, to
ask the advice of Mr. Traill upon the following question.
Applicant said that Mr. Leech held a beer licence, by the terms of which he
could not keep his house open after the hour of 11 in the evening. By a recent
act of Parliament, relating to this granting of wine licenses, his client and
several other beer retailers had obtained licenses to retail wine, and which
licenses empowered them to deal in wine between the hours of five in the morning
and 12 at night, which was one hour beyond the time fixed for closing the house
under the Beer Licensing Act. Under these circumstances he had to ask, whether
any offence would be committed if his client's business was carried on until the
later hour?
Mr. Traill replied that an act was passed last session, by which the
provision of the Wine Licensing Act were extended to beer shop keepers, the
provision of any other act against the same notwithstanding. By the act the
holder of a wine license, being a refreshment house keeper, could keep his
house open for the sale of wine till twelve o'clock, and for other refreshments,
not beer and wine, until one o'clock in the morning. He (Mr. Traill) was not
sure whether a beer shop keeper holding a wine license could not also retail
beer between the hours of eleven and twelve at night; at all events, if a
person were summoned before him for doing so, he should decline to convict.
Mr. Carttar thanked his worship for this opinion, which, he said, affected a
large number of persons.
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