SUNDAY OPENING
(N.Z. Press Association)
HOKITIKA, Dec. 28.
Hotels and taverns in Hokitika and surrounding districts including South Westland will again be open on Sunday for restricted liquor sales.
Permits to open the premises from 8 p.m. on Sunday i (New Year’s Eve) until 1 a.m. ion Monday have been issued under Section 216 of the Sale of Liquor Act, 1964, which means that permits are issued for a special social function.
They were issued by the I Hokitika Magistrate’s Court with the consent of the chairman of the West Coast Licencing Committee. Hotels were open from 8 p.m. to midnight on ChristImas Eve, which also fell on i a Sunday. Sergeant J. W. Sawers said I today that last Sunday the police kept the hotels under i supervision. There were no complaints, or breaches of the permits, and all hotels 'closed promptly at the expiry time of the permits. I The police will again keep a close watch on the hotels this Sunday.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33111, 29 December 1972, Page 10
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