SECRET STILL IN A WHARE
LIQUOR IN KING COUNTRY. (Per Press Association.) TE KUITI, February 16. At the Police Court.this morning, Alexander Greatbatch, Louis George Great batch, and George Arthur Burling were charged with keeping liquor for s.tlc. A plea of not guilty was entered in the first place, but after statements to the police had -been, produced accused pleaded guilty. The police stated that the men had been under observation for some time. On the (By of the races, accused were watched, and were seen to go to the bush carrying «suit-caises. A plain clothes constable followed them, and fifteen bottles of liquor were found in a creek. A lonely whare in which one of the Greatbatches lived was searched. An amateur brewing plant was found,, and a receipe for the manufacture of whisky was discovered. Sentences were reserved.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10672, 17 February 1926, Page 4
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