WHISKY MADE FROM RECIPE ON RADIO; SEQUEL IS A FINE

Wanganui Chronicle, 20 July 1950, Page 8

WHISKY MADE FROM RECIPE ON RADIO; SEQUEL IS A FINE

INVERCARGILL, Yesterday (PA). —The hearing of a recipe for whisky in a radio session several years ago, prompted Gerald Peter Enright, single, aged 55, to set up a still. This was said by Mr J. R. Mills, for the Crown, when prosecuting Enright for breaches of the Distillation Act, 1908, before Mr. W. A. Harlow, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. Mr. A. T. Wane appeared for accused and a plea of guilty was entered on each of two charges. After discussing the question of a penalty w‘th counsel, the magistrate remanded accused until tomorrow. Bail was renewed. Enright, a farmer, of Tompanys, on the Invercargill-Tok anui Road, was charged with being in possession of a still and with unlawfully making spirits. , . , Mr. Mills said that Enright had a farm of 180 acres at Timpanys, his house being two to three chains from tile main road. The premises had been kept under observation by the police on July 4, and as a result a warrant had been obtained. The police went to the farm at 8 o’clock tlie following morning Enright had admitted that he was in possession of a still and that it was "a fair catch. He had: been very frank with the police and had assisted them in their investigations.