Often in pubs you can find people that may have drank a little too much and may be tipsy or drunk. Well, spare a thought for Gustav Beer, licensee of the Carters Arms Hotel on the corner of High St and Separation Street Northcote (where the Northcote Shopping Centre is today). In August 1889 Gustav was charged with “allowing drunken persons to assemble on his premises”.
How dare he?!
Senior Constable Marks, who gave evidence in the case reported that he had seen “twelve or thirteen men who were singing, chewing, swearing, and behaving in a most strange manner.”
Chewing? Perhaps it was required that they swallow their food whole? I am still baffled by this article.
Poor Gustav was fined £5
Article found via trove.nla.gov.au
