For allowing beer taken away after 8 o’clock Sunday evening, a Mitcham publican named Edwin Newman has been fined £10 by the Croydon magistrates under the new Order. The woman who bought it was fined 5s., having acted in the belief that she could be with beer in jug till 8.30, as on weekdays.

Source: Lichfield Mercury – Friday 14 January 1916 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)

Supper Beer —
Publican fined £10 .

—Edwin Newman, licensee of the ” Three Kings ” public house , Mitcham , was fined £10 at Croydon under the new restriction Order for allowing beer to be taken away from his house after eight o’clock on Sunday evening last. A police officer stated that he stopped a Mrs Robinson when she was leaving the house after the regulation hour with half a pint of “supper beer” . She said she was under the impression that she could fetch it at that hour. When the officer entered the house, he said defendant used sarcastic remarks, and made signs to customers in the bar not-to furnish information. Mrs Robinson was fined 5s. for taking the beer off the premises.

Source: The Scotsman – Monday 10 January 1916 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)