SLY-GROG BUSINESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25849, 21 May 1945, Page 6

SLY-GROG BUSINESS

MORE WOMEN ENGAGED ■/, (0.c.) SYDNEY. May 8. -i The number of women who have ; gone into the “sly-grog” business in ; Svdney has doubled since the beginning of the year, according to police. ;J Since January 19 women have been “ convicted for-.'sly-grog offences,, com- - pared with only nine in the same time i last year. Bigger quantities of liquor, < sometimes more than 150 bottles, have - been .seized from women sly-grog sellers’ homes. . “ Police gave these reasons for the in- ■.] crease: Women residential proprietors j who had let rooms exclusively to Americans and sold liquor to them in j large quantities were now left with i supplies on their hands were trying to get rid of these on the open market; j because their new operations brought < them more closely under police notice, they were employing other women as ;] agents. These women usually kept one - room of their residential in which to ’J store sly-grog. and claimed they were minding it for an American tenant if questioned: women formerly supported by Allied officers and men were now left without funds, and were becoming sly-grog sellers to make a living. : ’