SLY GROG RAID.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 14 March 1912, Page 5

SLY GROG RAID.

NOVEL AND INGENIOUS PU^H By Telegraph—Press Ashburton, Last : The Guardian reports a ,suCCeß'gfui'i|§|| grog raid on the part of the locid'jwS|raJ in which a most ingenious revealed, anl a large amount of foprai secured. It seems that Sergeant -jFoui|||| and four constables this afternoon vM§§| ed a suspected house in P,ster' l opposite the Baptist Taberna'cfe, kndllifi far from the post office,, and alterliMm successfully searching the dwefllwlfl turned their attention to They drew no blood in the likely placwl| but after some time one of stables tried digging and turned',up i'mm the foot of an apple tree a nice cieanS bottle of "Johnny Walker. Thus ed fossicking was' actively renewed, 4Uira| diligence was rewarded by the flndingM of bottles and flasks concealed oneVnftH one under the vegetation in aU,din»il tions. Some were discovered amongsii tomato plants, others in the turnip tonM ard flowers sheltered many, but thai greatest number reposed beneath tuftsil of ordinary grass not more than a fooM high and where the pasture was inclined*?! to droop to one side. That great carol had been exercised was evident, for ijt*l no case was glass visible below thefl vegetation. The sergeant is of opimonlfi that of all the plants yet discovered- 'iaW Ashburton, and they have been mandi and novel, this is easily the most' $M f ?\°, u s' The q««>t«y o* liqnor'MiMiH totalled about three and a half doawS bottles and flasks. ' ™||