Manufacture of "Sly Grog''
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Growing in Tonga
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Nukualofa, Jan., 6.
EVIDENCE of the growing local evil of distilling illicit liquor, a legacy left behind by the American occu pation forces, came to light when several samples of “sly grog” were seized by the Police during the Christmas period.
The Government, knowing the part liquor had in the decimation of some of the Island races, notably the Hawaiians and Marquesans, is fully conscious of this danger to the Tongans. Consequently it has made the manufacture of liquor in the Kingdom an indictable offence punishable by seven years imprisonment.