LIQUOR OFFENCES
MAN AND WOMAN SENT TO GAOL
(P;A.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 11. This case illustrates that sly-grogging is still prevalent in Auckland/’ said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., when he dealt with a man and a woman charged with offences involving the sale of liquor at Pitt street, city. The accused were Patrick Charles Griffiths, aged 40, a watersider, who faced two charges of selling liquor without a licence on Pecerpber 13 and 14, having previously been convicted, and Ina Josephine Phillips, aged 33, a domestic, who was charged that being the occupier of premises she was privy to and consented to such sales, and also with keeping liquor for sale on December 15. “In this case I have got very specific evidence from Constable Golding, which has been challenged by the accused and a number of witnesses in an endeavour to set up an alibi,” said the Magistrate. “I believe the constable’s evidence in its entirety.” Sentences of six weeks’ imprisonment and one month’s imprisonment were imposed on Griffiths and Phillips respectively.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24798, 12 February 1946, Page 3
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