Sly Grog Selling
IN PROHIBITED MATAURA DISTRICT. Invercargill, August 4 Charles Humphries, of the Fortrose Hotel, situated in the Mataura prohibited electorate, was fined £SO and costs for sly-grog selling. The S.M. said he entirely disbelieved the evidence of defendant and his four witnesses that the liquor was a gift. All the liquor was ordered to be seized. In future cases in prohibited districts, except in very special cases, imprisonment would be imposed. The four men who were in the bar drinking were fined £2 each for illegally dealing in liquor.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22693, 6 August 1903, Page 2
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91Sly Grog Selling Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22693, 6 August 1903, Page 2
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