SLY GROG-SELLING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 10

SLY GROG-SELLING.

AUCKLAND PROSECUTIONS. SEVERE PENALTIES IMPOSED. (Peb United Peess Association. > AUCKLAND, November 8. ,In the Police Court Mark Roglich was fined £SO for selling liquor without a license. Sub-inspector M‘Car thy said that Ijquor was purchased from the defendant’s house on two occasions, two bottles having been sold for consumption off the premises. A raiding party found 84 bottles of beer and 34 bottles of stout under the stairway of the house, and a further 63 bottles of beer in a trunk in the passage / way. Several empty bottles were also found. The defendant was fined £3O for a similar offence two months ago. Samuel James Polglace, keeper of a restaurant in Karangahape road, was fined £lO on a similar charge. The' sub-inspector said that liquor was purchased on two occasions, a constable being sent the second time to make certain that the first occasion was not an accident. The defendant did not sell in a big way. When the raid was carried out 21 bottles of beer and threeparts of a bottle of gin were found underneath the counter in the defendant’s shop. Empty bottles were also found on the premises.