HOUSE OF ILL-FAME
TWO OCCUPANTS IMPRISONED , Auckland, This Day. A European, David Briggs, and his wife, Edith Briggs, a Maori, both pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning to a charge of permitting the premises they occupied in Parnell to be used as a house of ill-fame. They also admitted two further charges of supplying liquor to a female native. The premises were described by the police as what is commonly known as a “rough house,” where drunken parties frequently commenced at 4 p.m. and continued until 2 a.m. Defendants, neither of whom had anything to say, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour on the major charge and convicted and discharged on the lesser counts. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 May 1943, Page 6
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121HOUSE OF ILL-FAME Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 May 1943, Page 6
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