PRISON, NOT FINES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 221, 18 September 1942, Page 4

PRISON, NOT FINES

MAGISTRATE'S WARNING

ILLEGAL LIQUOR SALES

"There will be no fines for slygrogging to-day. Unless there are some exceptional circumstances offenders will go to prison," said Mr. J. H. Luxforcf, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, after he had sent the second of two men who came before him, to prison for selling liquor without a license. A single man, Stanley James Hill, aged 35, who appeared on summons, pleaded guilty to such a charge. Sub-Inspector Joyce, said that as the result of complaints, a constable on August 28. called at 19, Sale Street and Hill sold him a dozen quart bottles of beer for £1 10/. Later, when the house was raided, a quantity of liquor was seized in the bedroom occupied by defendant. Mr. W. W. Meek, who represented the defendant, said Hill was a woodworker and a boarder in the house. The liquor which he had locked in his wardrobe was used by Hill in entertaining his friends. "Although on this occasion Hill yielded to temptation and sold the iiquor to a man who turned out to be a constable. he is not a sly-grogger in the ordinary sense of the term," added Mr. Meek. "This was an isolated case." Hill was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.