"LIGHTHOUSING"
AV ELLINGTON OFFENDER FINED UG. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 17. William James Smith was convicted at the .Magistrate’s Court to-day on a charge of illicit liquor-selling, and was fined fttr>. Ti;e police described him as an old hand at the game known as "lighthonsing,” or carrying a bottle of whisky' and making surreptitious sales in the street. Smith said he was unable to pay, and the alternative was fixed as a month in gaol.
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Southland Times, Issue 17633, 18 January 1916, Page 5
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77"LIGHTHOUSING" Southland Times, Issue 17633, 18 January 1916, Page 5
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