SLY GROG-SELLING
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Auckland, December 4. Tho firet prosecution of sly grog-sell-ing since the early closing of hotel bars camo into forco was heard to-day, when seven charges of having sold liquor without being licensed were preferred against a middle-aged man named George Ebborlie. Accused pleaded guilty on all'the charges—live in respect to offences committed on Sunday and two in respect to offences after 6 p.m. on Monday. Accused accosted a constable in the street on Sunday and supplied him with beer from his private house. Sentences were imposed of three and six months' imprisonment, to run concurrently. The Magistrate said he expected a crop of such cases would follow the inauguration of six o clock closing.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 6
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119SLY GROG-SELLING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 6
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