ILLICIT SPIRIT
ELABORATE STILL DISCOVERED SYDNEY, Nov. 21. Following the arrest of a driver of a lorry on the harbor bridge on Friday night, and the seizure of 50 gallons of alleged illicit spirit, police wireless patrols. scoured the northern suburbs for many hours in an endeavor to locate tile still. Just before daylight yesterday they raided a large shed in a gully' at Wahroonga. There they) found what is believed to bn one of? the most elaborate stills which has operated, in the Commonwealth for some years. Four men, three of whom are- said to bo brothers', were-appre-hended. *t, j ,/ ' It is alleged that 800 gallons' bf- rum : were found on'the premises. Customs* officers poured the contents of the barrels into a stream in the gullv.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 4
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127ILLICIT SPIRIT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 4
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