Homemade Whisky Sold For "The Real Thing"

Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1949, Page 5

Homemade Whisky Sold For "The Real Thing"

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AUCKLAND, April 1. ' "This case can on.lv .be clescfibed as worse fhan '* the" iisual class of Sly. :gf°gging," said Senior. Sfergriant South.worth when Vietor EyerSj a^ed-. 29j.-a storemanj pleaded * guilty to _ tliyec charges of -selling liquor ititHOut a. licence. "A relative - of hiS conceived the idea of distillirig S^irit and accused sold it for him, " continued the Beniur Sergeant. "The worst part of it is thaf they have come into the possession of labe'ls of a respectable tirih oi whisky distillers. In one fease he sol.l "whisky" for 30s a bottle, to anOtHer person he sold a dozfen bottlris fbr fi.S. and on a third occasion he sold four bottles at 30s each in a city hotel." Evidence was given that when thc Government AnalySt examined the whisky he found it to contain froiri 50.7 per cent. of proof spirit to 54 pei cerit. In hiS opiriion it was illicit spirit arid riot the produfee di JifafeLeay y Duff and Cfampany. "There is no doubt that your list of cOnvictions is formidable," said Mr Luxford. "You have 43 previous eonyifetiO'ns irio'stly fc'orirife'rriitig dish'onesty If people are foolish enough to pick hp whisky under the' cbnditions that yhu SOld it tKey shriuld have known it was eitftfer ndt. good dr illegrilly obtained. I have no sympathy for the people that you defrauded. " On the first charge accused was cofnvicted and llned £50, on the second £'J 5, and on the third £10. Defaults fOr the bhargfeS tfrere riiri'd rit t'W'b months' iriip'fiSoflinerit, one riiofith, arid 14 days.