SYDNEY'S SLY GROG SHOPS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16214, 17 May 1918, Page 8

SYDNEY'S SLY GROG SHOPS.

3 f ■ ? ffjjjj » FIVE YEARS' FINES, £17,124|1 r Although there-was a J sly-grog cases in Sydney last ' compared with the previous . months, the offence (states the Sydiwii "Sun") has regained popularity thml year, with the result that then" Ml " been a substantial increase in the nunfcji ' ber of convictions for the four ; just closed. . But, in the opinion of the Inspectors*! f General of Police (Mr increase does not necessarily indicatKst an increase in sly-grogging genoraD^M From August to December year," he stated recently, "it wasMnifll possiblo for the police to give ddenffllj tcntion to sly-grog sailing, but the return of the men to their the evil ■ has been attended to, witl&Ji; the result that there has been an'liiiafk cr t? s i° ' n - le number of conviction&'&Sjf Following upon the remarks Mr C. AI. Macfarlane, Chief Stujenffljif ary Magistrate, who, in sly-grog sollcr to throe months''gwt&&* as well a s fining him £100, said tb«|\ sly-grog selling now so rife oydney that it was Becoming a Mr Mitchell had prepared a retnrnesf dealing with sly-grog soiling in metropolis for the past five years, for the four months of this year, 'I is as follows:— * y."

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Year. Cases. Convicted. Fih«i 1913 ... 39 29 1190« 1914 49 41 ■■ lMfttj 1915 ... 55 49 A 1916 ... 139 129 \ 499fc 1917 ... 110 104 4® 1918 ... 44 44 Totals ... 436 396 £17^-