SLY GROG SELLING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9122, 23 June 1908, Page 5

SLY GROG SELLING.

BY T3OEGRAPH—PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, June 22. At the Magistrato'3 Court, Richard Croner, licensee of the Kurapar.go accommodation house, waa fined £4O and costs for sly grog-selling. INVERCARGILL, June 22. Frank and Rose Poff, 'of the Carriers' Arms Hotel, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate' 3 Court, to-day, to a charge of sly grog-selling. Inspector Mitchell deposed that a moat extensive system of sly grogselling had been carried on by both defendant and his wife. The latter was as much concerned in it as her husband was. Both had been warned, that but had not had the slightest effect. The female defendant had stated openly that in one day she sold four cases of whisky and twenty gallons of beer. The police had evidence that 117 gallons of beer and 80 cases of whisky had been sold since April 18th. That was probably only half or quarter the amount sold. Poff was fined £SO. Judgment was reserved regarding his wife on a point raised as to coercion. Later. Rose Poff was fined £SO. Charles Rtya and Charles Ramsay, charged with being on Poff's premises at the timo of the raid, were each fined 303 with 7n costs. Several other similar charges against other persons were dismissed or withdrawn.