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Taihape Daily Times, 5 December 1917, Page 4

“He wasn’t very long getting to work after the law shortening the hours of licensed premises came into operation,’ declared Sub-Inspector Broberg yesterday, at the Auckland Police Court, of a man named George Ebberlio, alias Charles Dawson, who pleaded “Guilty” to seven charges of sly-grog selling on Sunday and Monday last. Ebberlie sold “square riggers” of beer to some constables, charging at the rate of Is per glass. His Worship, in sentencing accused, to six months’ hard labour, stated that he naturally expected an outcrop of sly-grog selling when the six oclock closing of hotels came*»into operation, but he had not expected the business to come to light quite so soon. Theonly way to ensure the law being carried out properly, and to give effect to the intention of the six o’clock closing was to deal firmly with people who transgressed the law, either for the purpose of defeating that intention, or for gain. Big reductions in Costumes and Frocks for one week only. See page 3.—Collinson and Gifford, Ltd. '