CHINESE GROG SHOP.
YOUTHFUL PROPRIETOR f HEAVILY FINED. Wanganui, Last Night. As a sequel to a raid by the police on a Chinese fruit shop on Friday evening, a diminutive Chinese aged 15, named Wong Hong, was charged at Court to-day with selling liquor without a license, also with supplying liquor to a native. The case aroused a good deal of public interest, as did also the most striking portion of the evidence —a big array of bottles of spirits, beer and Chinese liquor. The defendant, who pleaded guilty, said he had bought the business for £IOO. The previous owner advised him to ‘ sell the liquor to Maoris. Evidence was given that since May 26, defendant had been supplied by a: wholesale house with two cases of gin, a case of whisky and two dozen ale. The Magistrate, Mr Barton, in fining defendant. £35 and costs £2 12/- said the youth’s turnover had evidently been considerable.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2601, 3 July 1923, Page 3
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156CHINESE GROG SHOP. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2601, 3 July 1923, Page 3
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