SLY GROG SELLING
MAN FINED £5O 12 DOZEN OF BEER CONFISCATED (Own Correspondent.) TAIHAPE, June 3. Roy Body, a married man with a family of young children, pleaded guilty In the Magistrate's Court at Talhape to-day to a charge of sly-grog selling at Ohakune, and was fined £5O. An order was made for the confiscation of twelve dozen bottles of beer found in defendant's possession. Police evidence was to the effect that 200 to 300 empty bottles had been found on accused’s premises at Ohakune. Body had admitted that he had been sly-grog selling and added that he had to do something for a living. Accused had been fined £3O for a similar offence in February at Ohakune. The magistrate warned the defendant that a repetition of this class of offence would probably mean imprisonment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 131, 4 June 1937, Page 6
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