LIQUOR AT ROTARY DINNER
LAW BROKEN IN HOTEL.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Arising out of a dinner given by the local' Rotary Club on 7th May to Mr. Everett Hill, past president of Rotary International. Mr. Samuel Gibbons, then licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was yesterday fined £10 by Mr. Hunt, S.M., for exposing liquor for sale after the closing hour. The dinner took .place late in the evening, and during the proceedings the police entered the room and saw bottles of claret on the tables.
The Magistrate held that a breach of the law had been committed. His duty was to administer the law •as ho found it. He could not regard the breach as trivial, and dismiss the informations, since that might encourage others to disregard the law.
Of three other charges in the same connection the police withdrew one, and Gibbons .waß convicted and discharged on the other two.
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Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 10
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