SLY GROG-SELLER FINED £200
SECOND CONVICTION (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, March 7. On charges of selling liquor without a licence and keeping liquor for sale without a licence, Robert Tinker, a Seaward Downs farmer, was fined £2OO, with costs, in the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court today. Two constables and a policewoman who visited Tinker’s farm in plain clothes on the evening of January 28 gave evidence that Tinker sold them a dozen bottles of beer for 355. Mr Stewart Hardy, S.M., said that Tinker’s story that he sold the beer as an obligement was defeated by the fact that he chose to sell it at a profit. Tinker had a previous conviction for a similar offence, and knew the penalty.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27912, 8 March 1956, Page 18
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