HOUSE OF ILL-FAME
COUPLE SENT TO PRISON (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Apl. 30. A European, David Briggs, and his wife, Edith Briggs, a Maori, both pleaded guilty in the Polipe Court this morning to a charge of permitting the premises they occupied at Parnell to be used as a house of ill-fame. They also admitted two further charges of supplying liquor to a female Native. The premises were described by the police as what is commonly known as a “ rough house.” where drunken parties frequently commenced at 4 p.m. and continued until 2 a.m. The defendants, neither of whom haa anything to say, were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, with hard labour, on the major charge, and convicted and discharged on the lesser counts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 6
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