SLY GROG STORES

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1929, Page 5

SLY GROG STORES

SEQUEL TO AUCKLAND RAID , (Per Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, November 8. In the Police Court, Mark Riglich was fined £5O for selling liquor without a license. Sub-Inspector P. J. McCarthy said that liquor was purchased from the defendant’s house on two occasions, two bottles having been sold for consumption off the premises. A raiding party found 84 bottles of beer'and 34 bottles of stout undei' the stairway of the house, and a further 63 bottles of beer in a.trunk in the passageway. Several empty bottles were also found. Defendant was fined £3O for a similaioffence two months ago. Samual James Polglace, keeper of a restaurant on Karangahape Road, was fined £lO on a similar charge. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that liquor was purchased on two occasions, a constable being sent a second time to make certain that the first occasion was not an accident. Defendant did not sell in a big way. When a raid was carried out, 21 bottles of beer and three parts of a bottle of gin were found underneath the counter in defendant’s shop. Empty bottles were also found on the premises.