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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 188, 9 June 1903, Page 4

A Thames resident who has just returned from an extended visit to the King Country, tells the Thames Star that the amount of sly grog-selling that takes place would astonish anyone. Drink is sold quite openly, and yet it is extremely difficult to obtain a conviction. At He Kuiti one man has a sign, “The Te Kuiti Hotel,” while at other places “patent medicines” are dispensed as rapidly as possible to supply the demand. “The Government will have to establish hotels,” said our informant, in answer to a query : “there is no question of that. At the present time no revenue is derived from the great amount of sly grog-selling that goes on and yet ohe drink is consumed all the same. It is absurd to say that because it is a prohibited district there is any prohibition to the sale or the consumption of all sorts of liquors. I speak from actual experience, and the fact that fifty informations for sly grog selling were to be heard at Te Awamutu shows that what I say is true. What about the fine ? you ask. I tell you what —a fine of L3O or L4O only means the loss of Saturday’s takings, that’s all.” When you cannot sleep for coughing, it is hardly necessary that any one should tell you that you need a few doses of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to allay the irritation of the throat, and make sleep possible. It always cures and cures quickly. A, Manoy sells it]