Sly Grog.
By Telegraph—Press; Association. Dunedin, last night. The police this morning raided three establishments in the eity which are restaurants or boarding-houses, A quantity of liquor was found on two of the premises. Threo men, sent down from tho training depot, Wellington, two .of them attired as returned troopers, had no difficulty in obtaining liquor in tho places they visited. Later. —Tho police raided three of tho eating-houses in the city to-day, and in two secured beer or spirits sufficient to justify a prosecution for sly-grog selling. It appears that three of tho men from the Wellington training school were sent down hero, provided with khaki uniforms, iind sent round to entrap thoso supposed to supply drink as well as food, with the Result above named.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 519, 4 September 1902, Page 3
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127Sly Grog. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 519, 4 September 1902, Page 3
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