ILLICIT STILLS.
SOUTHLAND PROSECUTIONS. < INVERCARGILL, July 25. At the Police Court Dunean Alexander Stuart was charged with being unlawfully in the possession of a still at Otapiri Gorge, and with unlawfully making spirits. The accused pleaded guilty, and was fined £450, on the first charge and £5O on the second. James Robertson, similarly charged in connection with a still found at Awarua Bay, was fined £5O on each charge. The collector of Customs said that the making of whisky had been notorious in Southland for the last 50 years. He estimated the loss to the Government during the period at tens of thousands of pounds, and stressed the fact of its being made wholesale and even offered for sale in Dunedin. On the night previous to Stuart’s arrest 20 gallons were sold at Hedgehope at £2 a gallon.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 49
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138ILLICIT STILLS. Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 49
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