ILLEGAL LIQUOR SELLING
, <> By 'Me£rar>h—Press Association. Christchurch, July 24. Arising out of a recent ease of sly gro,?selliug, five men were charged to-day with iiidi.ii-jf and jiliptlin<r an ofl'enco by KolliiiEr liquor without a license Eaclr was fined .£11) witli costs, in default a month's imprisonment. The need for unbreakable glass, particularly in raid areas, becomes so increasingly urgent that more than ever must we deplore that a secret formula for its manufacture died with its inventor (wo thousand years ago. Aocordinir to Dion Cassius and others, a man lirefiontH himself before Tiborins to exhibit an unbreakable glass cu]>. He dashed it to the ground and otherwise ill-treated it, with no result save to dent it out of shape here and there, which injuries he remedied with a few blows from a hammer! Tiberius, however, saw not the marvel of the plass, but the probability of its adverse etl'cct on the value of precious melii-ls. "Does anyone else know of his secret?" lie demanded. "No," was. the proud inventor's answer. And the Emperor ordered his immediate execution.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 8
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177ILLEGAL LIQUOR SELLING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 8
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