ALLEGED SLY GROG SELLING
TASHIONABLE BOARDING HOUSE l - RAIDED. POLICE SECURE X GOOD HAUL. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 5. ■ The polite raided a fashionable^* boardinghouse just oHitside the city/ pioper last night, and seized a large""" quantity of mtoxicatirig liquor, six doi-% en bottles of beer being found under a wardrobe in a bedrdom occupied by the piopnetress. " fr . Boarders were found in the act ol ' dunking beer in their bedrooms. An estimable guest who proved 'o , be a constable in plain clothes was in possession of a dofcen bottles wlvHi he stated, Avere acquired from ihe landlady at six shillings a .dozen. * The most' reasonable explanation - offered was that there was going to be a party in the house, but t wi*s v not accepted. The police' dro\e dff in a \a\i- .itf - * loaded with bottles, i f>*
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Grey River Argus, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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