SALE OF LIQUOR
CURTAILMENT SUGGESTED FOR DURATION OF WAR. SLY GROG SELLERS SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 16. “The' time is ripe for some curtailment of the sale of liquor through ordinary channels for the duration of the war,” said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, during the hearing of sly-grog charges against a man and a woman.
“It is a matter for very serious consideration by competent authorities, and I have no doubt they will give it that,” he added. “I .view sly-grogging very seriously, and much more so lately. The liquor position is getting out of hand in this and other cities in the Dominion, and the question of control is going to be very difficult indeed. The courts are going peremptorily to stop anything in the way of illegal sale of liquor. “Where we have this promiscuous selling of liquor, people who indulge in it must know they will have to pay very heavy penalties. “This evil is going to be stamped out and stamped out properly. In future people convicted of this offence, even if they are first offenders, will be sent to prison.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1942, Page 4
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194SALE OF LIQUOR Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1942, Page 4
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