SLY GROG RAID.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1388, 14 March 1912, Page 4

SLY GROG RAID.

* —. A MOST INGENIOUS "PLANT." (By Telograph.-Prcss Association,) Ashburton, March 13. The "Guardian" reports a successful sly grog rnicl on the part of the local police, in which a most ingenious "plant" was revealed, and a large amount of liquor secured. It seems that Servant Whey cud four constables this afternoon visited a suspected house, and after unsuccessfully searching the dwelling, turned their attention to the garden. Thev drew no blood in tho likely places, but after some time r.no of the constables tried dig. gins, und turned up at tho foot of an, apple tree a nice clean bottle of "Johnny Walker." Thus heartened, fossicking was actively renewed, and diligence was rowarded by the finding of bottles and flasks concealed one. by one under the vegetation in nil directions. Some were discovered amongst tomato plants, others in tho turnips, and flowers sheltered many, but tho greatest number reposed beneath tufts of ordinary grass uot more than a foot high, and where the pasture was inclined to droop to ono side. That great care had been exercised in tho matter was evident, for in no case was a glass visible below the vegetation. The sergeant is of opinion that of all tho plants ynt discovered in Ashburtoi*—and they have been many and novel—this is easily the most ingenious. Tho quantity of liquor seized totalled about three aud a half dozen bottles and flasks.