SLY-GROGGING RACKET ALLEGED AT MURUPARA
(Special to Beacon) Rotorua, Thursday. Liquor, probably purchased at 21/- a case, was being brought into the Murupara area in quantity and re-sold for up to 35/- a case, said Mr E. L. Rossiter, Chairman of the Murupara Settlers’ and Residents’ Association, giving evidence before the Licensing Control Commission at Rotorua yesterday afternoon.
The Chairman (Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M.): It looks as though someone is sly-grogging?
Witness: That is what it amounts to. Mr Goulding (addressing Senior Sergeant P. Alsop): That should be interesting information for you, Senior-Sergeant. The Senior-Ser-geant said it was. Mr Rossiter claimed that the allocation of hotel licence to Murupara would stop this trading. The natural growth of Murupara was sufficient to justify two star hotel accommodation. About 25 further increases in population could be expected in the near future as a result of activity on hydro electric and pulp mill schemes. It was quite possible that there would be an increase of from 500 to 1000 in the population of Murupara within the next three months.
The present population was 400, within a 5 mile radius of the township, but Murupara served a large outlying district, including 100 people within a 20 mile radius. Trust Control Favoured The president of the Murupara Chamber of Commerce, Mr A. E. Dykstra, said citizens were in favour of a trust-controlled license. The only accommodation available was at a fishing lodge and his did not cater for the travelling public as it was “full of Government servants going about their lawful occasions.”
Mr Dykstra said that it was possible that Murupara might grow to 10,000 in view of the State schemes proposed. To Mr R. A. Potter, one of the counsel representing local interests, the witness said that he was aware that lquor was brought into Murupara by motor trucks daily. To Senior-Sergeant Alsop he said that as far as he knew the liquor was brought in by legal methods. Evidence in support of the allocation of a tourist house licence was given by the proprietor of the Murupara fishing lodge, Mr D. A. Cameron. \
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 48, 7 October 1949, Page 5
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352SLY-GROGGING RACKET ALLEGED AT MURUPARA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 48, 7 October 1949, Page 5
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