SLY GROG IN THE KING COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 1 May 1907, Page 2

SLY GROG IN THE KING COUNTRY.

Jill! BATCH OF COXVICTIOXS. Per Press Association. Auckland, April 30. A larj,'o number of rases in connection , with t lie illicit liquor trade in the Kill'' oiiulry v.iis before Mr. Xorthcroft, *•■}!■, at rammmiuui last week. The police during December and .Inmiary last" bought several samples of liquor sold as 'hop beer," and had it analysed |,y -Mr. .1. A. l'ond, Colonial Analyst. . The result was tlml, with one exception, the liquor was found lo contain iileohol in proportions ranging from 4 to 17 per cent. The standard percentage for hop beer is said to be i'/ u per (cut. As u result of prosecutions, Stephen Metirath. William Pollard, George .Murdoch, William Fred, ISriusou, and John Until, were each convicted and fined CIO and £4.,

costs on charges of brewing without a liccnsc. Moore and (.'rum]), Thomas Day, and .lnhn Jiailey, were each lined €1 und costs for selling overproof hop beer, whilst .McDonald liros. were lined .I*2 for a similar offence. Junes and Co., brewers, of Hamilton, pleaded guilty to sending overproof beer into the King Country, and wcrtf filled £4, with costs £8 IDs. A. Hyde, of To Awainatu, on a >'imilar charge, was fined £1 and costs C 4. John Nicliolls, for selling liquor within a prohibited area, was sentenced to three months' h.tnl labor. Frank Hhodes and ,1. M. Singleton (first offenders) were lined £1 and 5s respectively for introducing liquor into the native kianga of Taumarunui. William Blair was convicted on a charge of keeping for sale nine bottles of whisky, und was lined £5 and costs £4 9s.