SLY GROG-SELLING
TAXI DRIVER AND WIFE FINES OF £2O AND £ls SALES OUTSIDE HOTEL HOURS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] GISBORXE, Friday A weekly turnover averaging three and a-half cases of beer was mentioned by the police when a taxi driver, John Beattie, and his wife, Isobel Beattie, pleaded guilty at Ruatoria to a charge of sly grog-selling. It was stated" that Beattie used his connection as a taxi driver to develop a business in illicit liquor, most of the business being done outside hotel hours. Beattie was fined £2O and costs, and his wife £ls and costs, and an order was made for the confiscation of a quantity of liquor which had been found on their premises.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 14
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