Watersider Fined £l50 For Producing Spirits From An Illicit Still
AUCKLAND, Yesterday (PA)—Sixty bottles purporting to contain brandy and gin in bottles bearing wellknown brands exhibited in the Police Court today really held illicit spirit distilled from fermented potatoes. John Ellis, aged 43, a watersider, admitted three charges of keeping liquor for sale, possessing spirit on which customs had not been paid, and possessing a plant suitable for distilling. The police said that when a police sergeant and two constables called on premises occupied by Ellis in Freeman's Bay they found 60 bottles containing spirit "brandy and gin,” which were artificially flavoured. The magistrate, Mr M. C. Astley, refused to believe Ellis’s statement that he did not prepare the spirit to sell. He fined him £lOO on the second charge and £5O on the third. For keeping liquor for sale he convicted and discharged Ellis.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 December 1949, Page 6
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