FINES TOTAL £60

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 1

FINES TOTAL £6O

TWO SLY-GROGGERS CONVICTED BEER UNDER COUNTER Two sly-groggers were charged at the Police Court this morning following raids made by the police recently. Samuel J. Polglace, a first offender, was fined £lO, and Martin Roglich, appearing for the second time, was fined £SO. Mr. R. J. Coates appeared for Polglace, entering a plea of guilty. His client had for 17. years kept a restaurant in Karangahape Road, where he was a lessee of the Public Trust Office. He had supplied a persistent customer with beer from his own supplies. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that defendant had twice supplied a constable with beer. He was not in a big way, but had 21 bottles of beer and three-quarters of a bottle of gin under the counter. There were 28 empties found on the premises. “If it was his own private stock he should not have kept it in the shop,” remarked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., imposing the penalty. READY FOR PARTY Said by his counsel, Mr. Sullivan, to be ready for a party which he had intended having on the Tuesday following the raid, Martin Roglich was found by the police to have 185 bottles of beer and stout on the premises. "This case ds much the same as the other, except that Roglich has been convicted before, 22 months ago,” said counsel, entering a plea of guilty. The sub-inspector said that Roglich also had sold beer to a constable. In addition to the full bottles, there were empty beer and spirit bottles found.

Roglich was given 14 days to ,pay the fine. It was mentioned that on his last appearance he had been fined £3O.

A charge of sly grog-selling against P. Sweet was adjourned for a week at Mr. Sullivan’s request.