"WASHHOUSE BEER."
MANUFACTURE IN WAIHI. } RAID ON SUSPECTED SELLERS. (Per Press Association.) WAIHI, This Day. The police yesterday rounded up a number of alleged sly grog-sellers. That the brewing of home-made beer has been extensively carried on in Waihi for years past is common knowledge, and it is equally well known that much of it has been, and still is being, sold. The police, however, have found; it a difficult matter to bring the offenders to book, and on more than one occasion their efforts have failed. Yesterday the premises of seven residents suspected of selling homebrew were raided, and the haul totalled 700 bottles and hundreds of gallons in process of making. The beer is facetiously termed " washhouse beer," because of the fact that it is generally made in the housewife's copper. The bottled liquor was taken to the police station, where there have since been quite an alarming popping of corks. The parties concerned will be called upon to answer charges alleging breaches of the licensing law.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10705, 1 April 1926, Page 5
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