SLY-GROG CASE
YOUNG MAN FINED £SO:
(By Telegraph — Press Association.)
I > TIMARU, Last Nigh*. 1 At the Magistrate's Court at Ger—aldine. <i farm labourer was charged selling; beer without a licenses!* \ Mayfield. within the Ashburton 1 No- ' license district. The police gave evidence of complaints about young men , being made drunk at- accused's placer and the finding thereof two men on—der the drink. .Qne 18U. »gallon kegNwas gapped, and '"w"as untapped; ; 'Thcre '\vere also twr* empty ten gallon" keg's."- The defendant stated that he had- made a plant and brewed the beer himself on the premises.'and. filled the" four kegs. He denied bavin£,so]d any-., This.was Ms „ first brow at Mnvfjeld. A Govefnmenifc analyst reported that a sample of the beer contained'.'s, to 6 per cent of soirit. The .magistrate convicted .and fi»»tl him £SO, and gave him a fort-. night to raise the money.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10630, 8 May 1912, Page 5
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144SLY-GROG CASE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10630, 8 May 1912, Page 5
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