SLY-GROG PREMISES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 November 1942, Page 3

SLY-GROG PREMISES

Raids By Wellington Police FINES AND IMPRISONMENT On charges of selling liquor without licences, four persons, including two women, were convicted yesterday in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, in respect of three premises. One defendant wits sentenced to a term of hard labdur. and the tines of £23, £3O and £5O imposed on the others were the heaviest in ■Wellington since this class of offence has come more prominently before the Court. Cases against four others charged with various breaches of the licensing laws failed for lack of evidence. “There was every indication of sly grog selling on a large scale,” said Senior Sergeant 'l'. Campagnolo, giving evidence of a police raid at premises in Webb Street, as a result of which Charles Applehee and Agnes Margaret Mclntyre were charged with selling liquor without licence. Evidence was given of the sale of two bottles of wine. In making a plea on behalf of Mclntyre, Mr. G. Joseph said that her sole connexion with Ihe offence was that as a lodger in the house she answered the door and sold the wine only after consultation with Applebee. She was fined £25 and Applebee was sentenced to one month’s hard litbotir hy Mr. Stout, S.M. ,

li'ollowilig his arrest on warrant on the sly grog charge Applebee was discovered io In- wauled by the military authorities for failure Io report for military Hiwvlee. Since his t.iime appeared in the htillnt lie had been living under a false mime, On this elmrge ho was sentenced Io two months' imprisonment, the setileiii'VH to he vmutilative.

I‘i'ollt of £(il/l/ for IS days’ operations was Ihe police estimate of the slygl’og business cnri ied on at a Chinese llllimlry, 133 Wilils Street. In that time over eight dozen bottles of wine had been disposed of. mid, according to a nule Io n constable, the price had been Ift/ a liotile. Yue Noy Sun pleaded guilty through nn interpreter and was lined I'so by Mr. Stout. The line was paid n few minutes after defendant left the dock.

Chni'ged with selling liquor at 4 Jl'er-I'ni-e (liirileus, Sylvia Shaw was lined £3(l by Mr, lliirley, S.M. Cases against another woman of selling liquor without lleem-e, mid against one woman and, two men of being upon premises where liquor wnp sold without licence, were dismissid. Mr. Hurley commented upon the failure of the police to call Ihe convicted woman to give eviilcnee. "'l’here was insuflieieilt I'videiici' lb convict the others, who were 'lieky to got out." he added.

Side evidence iigninsl om'of Ihe dol’endiiiils wiis thill he li.id called at ihe house nl 11 p.m. while the police- were there. Whim he explained that he hml known niul visited another defendant for inmiy .vein's, the niagist'rate commented that neople dill not cull at a. house after 11 o’clock for other reasons Ilian to buy liquor.