SLY GROG-SELLING.
A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. FINES AT INVERCARGILL. (By Teleprrph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. Four charges of sly grog-selling were preferred against William Henry Neville Bell, in the Police Court today. He pleaded guilty to one charge, and the other three were withdrawn. Accused also pleaded guilty to a charge preferred by the collector of customs of carrying on the trade or business of a brewer without holding a brewer's license. Senior-Sergeant Packer said that accused’s premises were searched. In a bakehouse were found 123 bottles of beer and stout and 68 empty bottles. There were also 17 gallons of liquor fermenting and 10 gallons in another container. At his house was found a smaller quantity, totalling about 120 bottles. The beer-was sold oVer the counter freely.
On the brewing charge defendant was £lO and for selling £5, with costs’totalling £3 2s. “ Tiie business was evidently a profitable one,’’ remarked ihe magistrate.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18807, 1 December 1932, Page 7
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