SLY GROG-SELLING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 3

SLY GROG-SELLING

PRISON FOR YOUNG MAORI

One month's hard labour was imposed by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, on Robert Rangi Whaio, a 26-year-old Maori, on a charge of selling liquor without a licence in a bach at the back of a house in Ellice Street.

Senior-Sergeant T. Campagnolo sajd that two American servicemen were supplied with a bottle of wine for 15s 6d at the bach, which was well known for sly grog-selling. When the police raided the premises there were fourteen persons there, nine Maoris (three of them women), foiir Negro servicemen,, and the defendant. Ten glasses were partly filled with beer and there was a number of other bottles. There had been many complaints about the place. WOMAN FINED £25. Mrs. Suzanne Robina Ferguson, ot Holloway. Road, was fined £25 for selling liquor in a no-licence district, and was convicted and discharged for keeping liquor, for sale in a no-licence district. The police -said she sold a bottle of wine to two American s;erViccmen for 12s 6d. The police raided the premises later. Twelve glasses. some containing liquor, were found, and there were also nine full bottles oi wine and a number of empty bottles. The house had been the subject of many complaints. The defendant, who pleaded guilty, said she had sold only one bottle.