SLY GROG-SELLING
DETECTION BY SHADOWS ON TENT. Press Association. GISBORNE, February 18. Patrick O’Connell was fined £SO and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for sly grog-selling. Two constables who watched at night saw numerous visitors in accused’s tent near the railway works at Matawai, and shadows in the tent revealed the production of bottles, the drawing of corks, and drinking. Underneath the dog kennels and woodheaps they found holes in the ground containing seventy bottles of whisky, whilst many empty beer bottles and one hundred empty whisky bottles strewn about were found. The magistrate ordered the liquor to be confiscated - ' i ;; . t., be paid h , . . .
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 7
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105SLY GROG-SELLING New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 7
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