LIQUOR SALES
WAR-TIME CURTAILMENT MAGISTRATE’S SUGGESTION (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 16. “The time is ripe for some curtailment of the sale of liquor through the ordinary channels for the duration of the war.” said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Police Court to-day during the hearing of sly-grog charges against a man and a woman. “ It is a matter for very serious consideration by the competent authorities, and I have no doubt they will give it that,” he added. “ I view slygrogging very seriously, and much more so lately. The liquor position is getting out of hand in this and other cities in the Dominion, and the question of control is going to be very difficult indeed. The courts are going peremptorily to stop anything in the way of the illegal sale of liquor. “ Where we have this promiscuous selling of liquor, the people who indulge in it must know they have to pay very heavy penalties,” the magistrate added. ‘This evil is going to be stamped out, and stamped out properly. In future people convicted of this offence, even if they are first offender's, will be sent to prison.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 10
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190LIQUOR SALES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 10
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