ILLEGAL LIQUOR SALE
Q « MORE LIKE HOTEL THAN PRIVATE HOME” (P.A.) AUCKLAND, November 23. “Defendant’s premises looked more like a hotel lounge than a private home." said Sub-Inspector Munro in the • Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Geoffrey James Ross aged 29, a dealer, pleaded guilty to charges of gelling liquor without a licence and keeping liquor for sale. Sub-Inspector Munro -said that when the police raided the premises on the night of November 13 they found a large drinking party in progress and recovered 20 dozen empty, beer bottles. It was a place where men and women congregated to drink. Defending counsel said Ross served throughout the war in the Merchant Navy. "This place appears tc have been a drinking den,” said Mr Jenner Wily, S.M., sentencing 'Rom to om month's , imprisonment.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25660, 24 November 1948, Page 3
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