SLY GROG SELLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 October 1929, Page 5

SLY GROG SELLING

WOMAN FINED £lO

(Special to “Star.”)

AUCKLAND, October 25. Annie 0. Davis, a married woman, with two young children, who kept a shop at 202, Hobson Street, was fined £lO or one month’s imprisonment, at the Police Court to-day, on a charge of sly grog selling. Constable Dunn said he went to Mrs Davis’s shop at 8 p.m. on October 3, in company with Constable Gregg. He paid 2/- for two bottles of beer, which lie and Constable Gregg consumed on the piemises. An elderly woman came into the shop and said: “These two nice boys will shout for me.” However. there was no “shout.” Witness added that he bought two more bottles of ale, and left th? premises.

Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that the shop was raided after the visit of the two constables, when a small quantity of liquor was seized. Mrs Davis’s husband was now serving a sentence of three months for sly grog selling in the same shop. He had been convicted for sly grog selling in Grey Avenue, but afterwards moved to Hobson Street, where he was caught again. “This woman has kept the shop going while her husband has been in prison,” said the Sub-Inspector. “Liquor was sold openly, as the constables found. Your Worship knows I never want to be hard on women,” said Air McCarthy, “but Airs Davis has laid herself out to sell sly grog, and made arrangements for it.” Airs Davis was allowed a week in which to pay the fine.