AUCKLAND HOUSES RAIDED
QUANTITIES OF LIQUOR SEIZED. TWENTY.-SEVEN arrested. (By Telegraph—Press Association ) AUCKLAND, March 26. Twenty-seven persons, three of them women, were arrested by the police late on Saturday night when they raided two adjoining houses in Hobson Street, opposite the Trades Hall, and seized quantities of liquor. In spite of the lateness of the hour and the fact that the raids occupied something lik.e 11 hours, about 500 ioeople crowded the roadway till Black Maria had left with its final load.
The arrested men and women spent the weekend in the cells and will appear on varying charges before a magistrate tomorrow.
A party of 10 police officers raided both premises simultaneously shortly after 11 o’clock. They had little difficulty in securing entry and scarcely before the occupants were aware of it, every means of escape had been closed. One man happened to be locking out of an upstairs window as the police entered the front door of one house. He clambered out, evidently with the intention of making his escape along the top of a veranda, but he capitulated when he saw a constable waiting for him on the road below.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 6
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193AUCKLAND HOUSES RAIDED Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 6
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