SLY GROG CHARGES

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 March 1935, Page 5

SLY GROG CHARGES

INVEROARGILL CONVICTIONS. DISCOVERY OF HOME BREW. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Alareli .6 -Remarking that sly grog selling had to be put down at Invercargill, Mr. E. C. LevVy, S.M., in the Police Court to-day imposed fines of' £IQ on two defendants for keeping liquor for salein a no-license district and- admitted a third to probation ior two years. , William George Liddell pleaded guilty to a charge of selling liquor in the no-license district of Invercargill. A charge of keeping liquor for sale was withdrawn. He was fined £lO. Wallace Sycamore, taxi driver, pleaded guilty to a Similar charge and was also fined £lO.

Robert Thompson, labourer, pleaded not guilty to charges of keeping liquor for sale and of carrying on the business of a brewer, not being the holder of a brewer’s license.

Sergeant Abel said that 17 bottles of home brew were found in a front room and 15 in a back bedroom. There were II in the making. Thompson, in evidence, said he sold no beer to anybody. Air. Levvy said Thompson would be convicted on both counts and, as he had no money to pay fines he would be admitted to probation for two years. Air. H. S. Cortlery (for the Customs Department) .said that the brewing charge carried a minimum fine of £25 and as the man had nothing he asked leave to withdraw the charge.