SLY GROG-SELLING CASE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 17 November 1910, Page 21

SLY GROG-SELLING CASE.

PROTEST IN PARLIAMENT. "Will the Government take steps to see that adequate recognition is given to the brave action of the probationers, Johnson and Poole, of the Police Department, who recently took advantage of the hospitality of an old age pensioner in Wellington in order to secure a conviction for sly grog-selling?” By a question so worded Mr. Poland, M.P. for Ohinemuri, on Tuesday drew attention of the Prime Minister to the case of Captain Simons, who was on Monday convicted and fined £3 and 7s costs for ■ alleged sly grogselling on Adelaide Road, Wellington. The old man, he said, received the sum of 2s 6d on account of his hospitality, was brought before the Court, and on the evidence of the probationers fined. He might say that when they read of the case in the press various members of Parliament within five minutes subscribed the amount of the fine and paid it. He would like to ask the Prime Minister whether it was intended to give the

probationers half the amount of the fine in the circumstances. Mr. Greenslade (Waikato) expressed the hope that the two probationers concerned would never reach tup police force. Mr. J. P. Luke (Wellington Suburbfe) said he had known the old age pensioner since 1874, and he was the last person in the world to lend himself to sly grog-selling. The Prime Minister said he had not noticed the newspaper reports of the case, but he would have inquiry made.