UNLICENSED STILL FOUND
GAOL FOR YOUNG SIIA REMILKERS Auckland, April 17. When the police raided a farm house at Blackhill Road. Runciman, south of Auckland, on the night of Ist April, they found a still in operation. This was disclosed when two young sharemilkers, Herbert Henry Pullen and Francis George Williams, pleaded guilty before the Magistrate. Mr Luxford, to-day. to a charge of being in possession of an unlicensed still and secondly to being concerned in unlawfully making spirits. Pullen told the magistrate they were only experimenting, but the magistrate commented that even iff they were that would not be counted in their favour now. “We have a definite evil incur midst,” he said. "It has wide ramifications and this illicit distilling produces great profits for the individual. It is also eating into the moral fibre of the people. The sentences must be Nine months* imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on each of the accused on the first charge and they were convicted and discharged on the second. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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170UNLICENSED STILL FOUND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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