With sly grog sellers, cattle rustlers and other dishonest elements and the occasional friction between Aborigenes and station people it was decided that a police camp would be established in the area.
In your community alcoholism is a problem and so is joined to that, sly grog.
In March 1873 Whitbread left far away Mount Freeling Station for the smelters at Bolla Bollana, to investigate a report of sly grog selling.
Between the wharves and the interstate railway station, built in the 1880s, were streets of sly grog and loose women, dance halls and theatres, a place where local mixed with foreign.
We've never been really close buddies, but we've shared some mischief, and I've written thousands of words on the man and, yes, I've documented his lifestyle - the potted sex and drugs and sly grog history - as much as anyone.
Those who really wanted liquor found it at sly grog shops or across the city boundary.
During the Christmas holiday break it was reported that, ‘Some exceedingly discreditable scenes have been witnessed at various times owing to the large number of sly grog shops.
In 1883 a riot erupted at the Mackay racecourse when a sly grog dealer refused to serve the Islanders, who responded by throwing bottles.