SLY GROG SELLING.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 16. Following a police raid on sly grogsellers, three Dalmatians nppeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, charged with selling liquor without a license. One was sent to gaol for two, months the second was fined £5 and the third was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months. The man who wms sent to gaol had been fined £3O in 1928, and '£so last year. Ho thanked the Magistrate on hearing the sentence. Masterton, May 15. Charged with having kept liquor for sale on unlincensed premises, Thomas Brogke Lee was fined £2O, in default six weeks’ imprisonment, by Mr J. Miller, S.M. m the Police Court today. Time was allowed in which to pay the fine. Accused pleaded guilty. Action was taken against accused as a sequel to a fight which occurred at the annual picnic of the employees of the Waingawa freezing works on March 8. , “The defendant has pleaded guilty to hnving kept liquor for sale and, although sly-grog cases are not so frequent now in this district as formerly, the necessity to keep it down is nevertheless there,” said Mr Miller in convicting defendant.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 144, 17 May 1930, Page 6
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204SLY GROG SELLING. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 144, 17 May 1930, Page 6
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