SLY-GROG SELLING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 11

SLY-GROG SELLING

ACCUSED FINED £2O. BEER PURCHASED BY POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 7. William Campbell, of Paekakariki, was fined £2O on one'charge and convicted and discharged on another of unlawfully selling liquor at Paekakariki. According to the evidence of the police he is agent for the wholesale wine and spirit firm of Reginald Collins, Ltd. There is a surf club at Paekakariki with a pavilion built on the beach, and in the winter months dances are frequently held there on Saturday nights. In the near vicinity the defendant had been occupying a garage in which he had been storing supplies cf liquor. He sometimes acted as doorkeeper for the dances, and the police department have been receiving complaints alleging the sale of liquor to young men attending the dances. On June 3 two’probationary constables went to this dance. Defendant was the doorkeeper that night. One of the constables purchased six bottles of beer and the other three bottles. A search warrant was executed at the garage and a large supply of different kinds of liquor was appropriated.

Mr Evans Scott said that the firm for which Campbell was agent, had applied to the Customs Department for a licence to have a depot for the benefit of their agent at Paekakariki. It would do away with the present difficulty in regard to the delivery of liquor in the district. Counsel submitted that the case was not a bad one of its kind.

The Magistrate refused the application of police that the liquor be declared forfeited.