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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 6

At the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court to-day, Wy Gee was fined £2O for hav T iug opium in his possession, (states, the PPress Association). Willie Why and Ah Kee were fined £lO each. Wy Geo was also fined £5 for permitting opium-smoking. The Salvation Army officials in charge of Rotoroa Island, to which habitual inebriates are committed by 'the Court, have been much concerned (states the Press Association) by the amount of drunkenness. All attempts to trace the source of liq(misapplies failed until a detective was engaged to watch the movements of the Home. He found many of the ■inhabitants keenly interested in gardening, and unusually . interested in the cultivation of parsnips, from which, it transpired, wine of considerable strength was manufactured by a simple process. It proved such powerful stuff that those who drank it almost immediately became hopelessly intoxicated. Needless to say, the new industry was promptly suppressed, and Rotoroa has resumed its reputation for dryness.

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