SLY GROG-SELLING.
THE "LIGHTHOUSE" TRADE. Yesterday the police raided a neighbourhood where persons — euphemistically called "lighthouses" in tho parlance of their customers — arc alleged to carry on sly grog-selling. These persons, laden with bottles of beer, arc said to bo in the habit of cruising round certain neighbourhoods — notably Taranaki-street and Courtenay-place — on ' Sundays, and retailing their cargo to passers-by at enormous profit. Draught beer, for pxivmple, bought at sixpence a bottle on Saturday, is "lighthoused" at two fehillings a bottle on Sanday morning. Charles Reston to-day pleaded guilty to . unlawfully selling liquor ; not guilty, to a further charge of being an idle and disorderly person, habitually consorting v.ith reputed thfeves. It transpired that tho person with whom he did business on Sunday was a police probationer. The police gave accused a bad character as an idler constantly in bad company. He had been in the habit of carrying on an illicit traffic in liquor for some Sundays past. On the first charge Reaton was fined £10, with tho alternative of a month's imprisonment; for being idle and disorderly he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 3, 4 July 1910, Page 7
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186SLY GROG-SELLING. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 3, 4 July 1910, Page 7
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