A LICENSING CASE

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 4

A LICENSING CASE

ABSENCE OF COMMITTEE MEMBER HEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE DISSATISFIED [Pun United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 1. The executive of the New Zealand Alliance received a letter from Mr A. Thompson, a member of the City Licensing Committee, who was absent from the meeting which granted the license to the Ambassadors’ Hotel, enclosing a letter from his solicitor, Mr Gregory, who had advised him that, in view of certain rumors as to the possibility of Mr Thompson’s right to sit on the committee being challenged, owing to bis being chairman of directors and president of an Auckland chartered club, lie sliould not sit ftt tho licensing meeting on June 3. Mr Thompson then decided to go to Wellington on tramway business, and wrote to the chairman of the committee explaining his absence and apologising. He added that it was his intention to resign from the Licensing Committee. The Alliance passed a resolution that Mr Thompson’s explanation was entirely unsatisfactory; that his failure to attend the meeting constituted a serious abuse of the confidence reposed in him and a violation of the principles of good faith on which public life is founded.