GAOL FOR SLY-GROGGERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 63, 16 March 1942, Page 6

GAOL FOR SLY-GROGGERS

: THREAT BY AUCKLAND MAGISTRATE !(P.A.) Auckland, March 13. | i “Sly-groggers are going to be punlished with imprisonment.. They have to go. We magistrates are concerned and have been in conference. We have decided that there are to be no more monetary penalties except, in {special circumstances for selling sly- : grog.” ' This statement was made by Mr. J. ,H. Luxford, S.M., when Arthur Charles Tudor, garage proprietor and taxi-driver, of Milford, faced two {charges of selling liquor without a I licence. I Police evidence showed that on two occasions a constable had purchased [six quart bottles of beer for 10s 6d from accused. His house was later searched and nearly four dozen bottles lof beer and 11 empty dozen cartons iwere found. i Accused said he had been asked to i keep the beer for the convenience of friends in the district. As a man in the same district had recently been lined for a similar offence the magistrate said he would impose only a fine in this case. On the first charge Tudor was fined £lO and on the second convicted and discharged.