SLY GROG SELLING.
A SOUTHERN CONVICTION, i
(BY TELEGKArH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Invercarqill, this day. H. Hammond and wife were each fined £10 at the Police Court yesterday for sly grog, selling. The Centre Bush convi:bion was obtained by importing ntranga constables, who passed as men looking for land, and spent several days in Hammond's bouse, getting spirits repeatedly! An attempt was made to evade the penalties by offering fruit for sale and giving the liquor away. The offence of Hammond was aggravated by .threats to shoot the constables after he found that) he had been duped. Tbe house bad. foimeily an accommodation license, but had had none for tbo past year or two. Complaints of the. prevalence of drunkenness about the place sec the police in motion.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 149, 23 June 1894, Page 2
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