FINE OF £SO
SLY-GROG SELLING IN s INVERCARGILL * p.A. INVERCARGILL, May VPolice suspicions of sly-grog selling at the unlicensed Criterion Hotel in Invercargill were confirmed when constables were posted to watch the premises in the early hours >■:, Sunday, April 18. They stopped a tar l leaving the yard and found two dozen bottles of beer which the driver said he had bought for £3 10s from the hotel proprietor, Arthur Guilford Westbury. Westbury pleaded guilty to-day to selling intoxicating liquor without a licence and was fined £SO, m default one month’s imprisonment. Senior-sergeant W. J. Irwin said records showed that Westbury had purchased 63 dozen bottles of beer and seven bottles of whisky in three months. There was evidence that a liquor trade had been carried on fairly extensively at week-ends.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26783, 28 May 1948, Page 3
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