ALLEGED ILLICIT STILL.
The trial commenced in the Supreme Court at Invercargill on Tuesday of William Allan Alexander Mcßae, farmer, of Dunsdale, and his son William, who are charged with making spirits, or being concerned in the unlawful making of spirits. The Crown Prosecutor stated that when the police and an inspector of the Customs Department, visited the locality they found a large and well-made still in operation in thick bush on an unoccupied property next to Mcßae’s farm. A track led from Mcßae’s farm through the bush to the stills, and the evidence would show that it was used for no other purpose. A horse on the property, when mounted by a constable and given its head, led the way to the new still. INVERCARGILL, May 10. A verdict of not guilty was returned to-day by the jury, in the case in which William Allan Alexander Mcßae and his son William Robertson Mcßae, were charged with being concerned in unlawfully making spirits, and the accused were discharged.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 14 May 1934, Page 4
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168ALLEGED ILLICIT STILL. Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 14 May 1934, Page 4
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