SLY GROG-SELLING
£2O FINE INFLICTED Dominion Special Service. Masterton, May 15. Charged with having kept liquor for sale on unlicensed premises, Thomas Brook Lee was fined £2O, in default six weeks’ imprisonment, by Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in the Police Court today. Time was allowed in which to pay the fine. Accused pleaded guilty. Action was taken against accused as a sequel to a fight which occurred at the annual picnic of the employees of the Waingawa freezing works on March 8. “The defendant has pleaded guilty to having kept liquor for sale and, although sly-grog cases are not,so frequent now in this district as formerly, the necessity to keep it down is nevertheless there.” said Mr. Miller in convicting defendant.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 196, 16 May 1930, Page 10
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