WHISKY NEST
WHAT A HATPIN REVEALED. SALUTARY FINES. [Per Press Association.] MASTERTON, Oct. W. At tho Magistrate’s Court to-day, Alexander Gay, boardinghouse proprietor, was fined £25 for keeping liquor for sale in ti no-liccnse area. Arthur Barnes, a lodger in the house, was lined a similar amount on a charge of selling. Evidence for the prosecution deposed that tho police, after thoroughly searching Gay’s house, discovered that tho two decorative mouldings under tho mantel shelf in tho bedroom were loose, and by tho insertion of a hatpin in la small holo a spring was released and the moulding sprang out. disclosing a large cavity. In one of these was secreted six bottles of whisky.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 6
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114WHISKY NEST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 6
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