FINES TOTAL £520
DISTILLATION OF SPIRITS (P.A.) Timaru, March 9. Fines totalling £520 were imposed by Mr. H. Morgan, S.M., on Matthew Glucina. a Yugoslav fish merchant aged 42, of Waimate, in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court, on charges laid under the Distillation Act. He*was fined £250 on a charge of being concerned in the unlawful making of spirits, and a further £250 on a charge that spirits on which fully duty had not been paid were found on his premises. On a charge of attempted suicide Glucina was placed on probation for two years on condition that he paid medical expenses within one month. For having bottles in his possession with labels not destroyed, he was fined £2O. while for keeping intoxicating liquor for sale, being an unlicensed person, he was convicted but no penalty was imposed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 60, 11 March 1944, Page 3
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137FINES TOTAL £520 Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 60, 11 March 1944, Page 3
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