FINE OF £l00

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 1

FINE OF £loo

FOLLOWS POLICE RAIDS ON SLY-GROGERS

BEER FOR CONSTABLES

Asking for the imposition of heavy penalties in sly-grog cases, Subinspector Shanahan said the question of sly-grog sellers in the city had been most acute. Some of the men were doing as much business as the hotels. Mate Nysich was fined £IOO Qt the Police Court this morning.

Mr. King appeared for Nysich, and entered a plea of guilty. The swbinspector said two constables had visited defendant's premises at 59 Mctoria Street on April 13, and had been supplied with liquor. Sergeant Lambert had led a raiding ppxty six days later, and there were found in the house 3S bottles of ale, 20 bottles °f stout, one and a-half bottles of Fhlaky, and a part bottle of gin. The empty bottles included more than 40 ale bottles. Nysich had been previously convicted a year ago, when he bad beeu fined £ls. Mr. King said both defendant and his wife had suffered ill-health, and h’ysich had had an accident just recently. He provided meals for his fellow-countrymen, and it had beeu suggested to him that he should provide a little refreshment. He had done so, as he was impecunious, and ■wished to keep their custom. Counsel assured the court that Nysich would not offend again. He was not ln n big -way, and there had been no conjpiatntg in regard to his house. Imposing the fine of £IOO, Mr. F. - " Levien said nothing could be said 'u mitigation. The Dalmatians knew the money to be made in sly-groggiDg, but they also knew the risk of the business. Default of tbe fine was fixed »t i mouths’ iiupitsunmeui.