DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1943, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

SLY-GROGGER SENTENCED AUCKLAND, March 4.

After 24 hours in business as a sly-grog agent, Jack Eric Robinson, aged 33, a wharf labourer, of St. Paul Street, was caught by the police. This morning, before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., he pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a license and was sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment. Four bottles of wine were found on the premises and Robinson had £4B in his possession, £3O of which he said had been advanced by a man who persuaded him to undertake sly-grogging.

STOLEN LIQUOR AUCKLAND, March 4. After occupying three-quarters of an hour commenting on the seriousness of the offence of receiving stolen property, Mr. Justice Callan sentenced Don Rudolph Melhose, aged 32, a labourer, to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Melhose, had been found guilty of receiving liquor to the value of £ 169 knowing it to have been stolen. After referring to Melhose’s previous convictions, including false pretences, breaking, entering, and theft, and receiving, his Honoi 1 said he was not at all impressed with the prisoner’s character. The motive behind the transaction was that he needed the liquor foi' the business he indulged in. An order was made that the liquor recovered be returned to the firm from which it was stolen.