INVERCARGILL MAN FINED FOR SLY-GROG SELLING
(P.A.) Invercargill, May 26. Police suspicions of sly-grog selling at the unlicensed Criterion Hotel, Invercargill, were confirmed when constables were posted to watch the premises in the early hours of Sunday, April 18. They stopped a taxi leaving the yard and found two dozen bottles of beer which the driver said he had bought for £3 10s from the hotel proprietor, Arthur Guildford Westbury. The latter pleaded guilty today to selling intoxicating liquor without a licence, and was fined £5O, in default a month’s imprisonment. Senior-Sergeant W. J. Irwin said the records showed that Westbury purchased 63 dozen bottles of beer and seven bottles of whisky in three months. There was evidence that the liquor trade had been carried on on a fairly large scale at week-ends.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 May 1948, Page 6
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