PRESENTATIONS TO POLIC OFFICERS’ WIVES
STRONG COMMENT BY LICENSING COMMITTEE
ICRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 7. prior to the commencement of business at the City Licensing Committee this morning, the chairman, Mr Bartholomew, S.M., read the following resolution passed by the committee, intimating that it would he forwarded to the Minister of Justice: “That this committee respectfully draws the attention of the Minister to a presentation made to Airs Mathieson, wife of Senior-Sergeant Mathieson, on Ills departnre from Dunedin, as reported by the press. The strong representation of the liquor trade at the above presentation lorces the committee to view the matter with the gravest alarm. The committee is also informed that similar presentations have been made to members of the police force on other occasions, and in View- of the fact- that the proper administration of the licensing laws is in the hands' of police officers, the committee respectfully requests that action be taken to prevent effectually a recurrence of such presentations.” >
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10096, 8 September 1925, Page 2
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