A "LIGHTHOUSE" DETECTED
DILUTED WHISKY FOR SOLDIERS. For some little time'past the polico have been endeavouring to. locate a placo 'In Te Aro from which it was believed that soldiers were being supplied with liquor on Sundays. Yesterday, Sergeants Kelly. and Wilcox planned a ruse, which had an entirely satisfactory result. Members of the Police Force were attired ih khaki (without badges), and sought to obtain liquor in the suspeoted quarter. . . They were successful Jn purchasing a bottle of whisky for 10s., which turned out on examination to be diluted. During the afternoon the premises known as No. 2 Holland Street were raided, when it was found that there was a liberal supply of whisky on hand, about twenty empty beer bottles, and four two-gallon beer jars, one of them a third-full. ' As a result of the. raid the alleged keeper of the house and another man, who, it is alleged, effected t'he salp. of the whisky, will bo charged • on summons wil'h an evasion of the liquor laws. •
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 5
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169A "LIGHTHOUSE" DETECTED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 5
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