PENALTIES IMPOSED FOR SLY-GROGGING

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23587, 14 March 1942, Page 8

PENALTIES IMPOSED FOR SLY-GROGGING

STATEMENT BY MAGISTRATE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 13. “Sly-groggers are going to be punished with imprisonment. They have to go. We Magistrates are concerned and have been in conference, where we decided that there were to be no more monetary penalties, except in special circumstances, for selling sly grog.” This statement was made by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., when Arthur Charles Tudor, a garage proprietor and taxi-driver of Milford, faced two charges of selling liquor without a liedhee. Police evidence showed that on two occasions a constable had purchased six quart bottles of beer for 10s 6d from the accused. His house was later searched and nearly four dozen bottles of beer and 11 emptv dozen cartons were found. Accused said he had been asked to keep beer for the convenience of friends m the district. , . , . , _ As a man in the same district had recently been fined for a similar offence, the Magistrate said he would impose only a fine in this case. On the first charge he was fined £lO and on the second he was convicted and discharged.