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SLY GROG-SELLING Far-reaching regulations against slygrog selling are contained in amendments to the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations, 1942, which are to be gazetted. Wholesalers and brewers, while not debarred from supplying the trade on Saturday afternoons during the hours when the hotels are closed, are prohibited from supplying ■ the public with the minimum two-gallon purchases between those times. Another amendment stipulates that should any person other than a licensed winemaker or holder of a licence sell New Zealand wine, cider, or perry he shall be of good character and subject to the licensing laws. In view of a recent Supreme Court decision that the prohibition against the removal of liquor from licensed premises during closed hours is confined to liquor purchased on such premises, another regulation makes such removal an offence irrespective of when or where the liquor was procured. A wider definition is given to the meaning of the word "premises,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 3
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154MORE AMENDMENTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 3
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