SLY GROG-SELLING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 2

SLY GROG-SELLING.

£25 PENALTY FOR A SECOND OFFENCE. On the 23rd of April lant, Sergeant Rutledg* and Constable M'Kelvcy paid a visit to No. 289, Cuba-street, premises occupied by Mrs. Fanny Prior as a fish and chip shop, and seized a quantity of liquor. Before a summons could be served on Mrs. Prior, however, ehe disappeared, and it was not until the 24th of this month that she was arrested at New Plymouth. To-day, she was charged before Dr. M 'Arthur, 8.M.. with having unlawfully sold liquor to Police-Constable Atkinson. It was mentioned by Sub-Inspector Sheehan that accused had previously been convicted for sly grog-selling. In asking for leniency, Mr. C. P.. Dix, accused's solicitor, made a statement to the effect that Mxe. Prior had remained in Wellington for several days after the police raid, and as no action was taken against her she decided to go away and make a fresh start. She had been in ill-health for some considerable time, and" her life in Now Plymouth had been a little hell— fear of the police being with her all the time. His Worship commented on the fact that it was a second offence, and entered a conviction, and imposed a penalty of £25, with costs "7s. Fortyeight hours' time- was given in which to find the amount.