SLY GROG-SELLING

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 12

SLY GROG-SELLING

A BOOTMAKER FINED

A bootmaker of Day’s Bay, Albert Lucchesi was fined £5 by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of selling liquorf' without a license. The Magistrate, in inflicting the fine, said that he would make the. penalty a light one because of the circumstances in which the accused,, a married man with two children, was in. When the place was raided after four bottles of beer had been sold to the police for 1/9 a bottle, 74 bottles of liquor--68 of ale and six of stout —were found on the premises. Nine empty bottles were discovered in the house and 33 in the yard. When’ the police were trying to catch the defendant in April last he had said that a man would have to be well known in the bay to be sold liquor. The beer was sold to the police between 11 and 12 p.m., and it appeared as if the defendant entered for the young men who visited the bays for-dances. Mr. W. E. Leicester, who represented defendant, said that his client had been forced into the position on account of sheer poverty.