SLY GROG-SELLERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12423, 17 April 1926, Page 5

SLY GROG-SELLERS

PAYABLE SIDE-LINE CONCEALED STORES THIRSTY CLIENTS’ ORDERS NOT SENT Per Press Association. / “ MASTERTON, April 16.. m the Magistrate's Court to-aay Cecil McCormack, proprietor of "The Pines" boardinghouse, and Arthur Barnes, a hoarder, were convicted on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in a no-license area. McCormack was fined £ 25, and Barnes, who wag a second offender. *650. The evidence showed that the defendants, who also follow the occupation of slaughtermen at the freezing works, had procured extensive quantities of liquor over a period of months. On the mglit of the raid several men were on the premises, and while the police were in possession of 'the % house several calls were received on the telephone requesting whisky to be delivered to certain places in town. One inquirer, unaware that he was talking to a policeman, remarked on the extent of his thirst, and requested that the liquor be dispatched urgently While searching the house the police discovered two "plants" of' whisky, one being concealed « behind a mantlepiece, access to which was gained by releasing a spring behind the moulding, and the other below a trapdoor in the bottom of the kitchen cupboard, which was covered with bottles of jam and sauce.