BEER, STOUT, SPIRITS
__o ; POLICE AUCTION SALE < . 1 HAUL AT WANGANUI j 1 , One thousand bottles of beer and stout and about a dozen bottles of < .-spirits were sold at an auction by "the "YVanganui police recently at prices sometimes below or on, a. par with 1 those charged by wholesalers. 1 Tlie liquor was mositly confiscated from the King Country as a result of 1 prosecutions against sly grog sellers -and Taumarunui had the distinction ' -of supplying the largest quota. 1 The sale was the largest held in 1 Wanganui for many years, included 1 in the spirts was a brand of whisky long since off the market and how it , Tan, the gauntlet'for over 20 years in "the King Country without a buyer ■caused bidders to ponder the possibility that it had been stowed away by some sly grogger and forgotten amtil unearthed in a police raid.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 14, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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149BEER, STOUT, SPIRITS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 14, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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