SLY-GROG SHOP

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 7

SLY-GROG SHOP

DRINKING BY GIRLS WELLINGTON MAN FINED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Allegations of drinking in a sly-grog shop by young girls and of couples leaving the Melody Club, Inc., as late as 5 o'clock in the morning were made before the magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout, in the Police Court to-day when Hubert Edward Howard was prosecuted for selling liquor without a license. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £SO and costs. According to Sub-Inspector Hewitt, a constable visited the premises and purchased liquor from Howard. Later 3 large quantity of liquor was seized. Howard, who was in charge of the place at that time, had the keys of different lockers with various names on them. The sub-inspector said that Howard slated that he assisted, or was assisted, by a brother in the management of the club, which had installed amusement machines. They went fifty-fifty in the takings. There was a lot of drinking on the part of people on the premises, the sub-inspector _ continued, including young girls 20' years of age. The police had seen couples leaving the premises under the influence of liquor as late as 5 o’clock in the morning. Its chib business was simply a blind for a slygrog shop of one of the worst descriptions. The magistrate, after imposing the fine, said that if the offence occurred again it would mean imprisonment for Howard.