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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 June 1926, Page 7

Arising out of a dinner given by the New Plymouth Rotary Club on- May 7 to Mr Everett Hill, past president of the Rotary International, Samuel Gibbons, then licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was on Wednesday finedi £lO by Mr Hunt, S.M., for exposing liquor for sale after the closing hour. The dinner t-ook place late in the evening, and. dni'ims "tlr© proceedings i>li© police entered the room and- saw bottles of claret on the tables. The magistrate held that a breach bad occurred, and his duty was to administer the- law as lie found it. He could not regard the breach as trivial and- dismiss the informations. since that might encourage others to-disregnrd the law. Of three other charges in the same connection, the police withdrew one, 'and Gibbons was convicted and discharged on the other two.

The first swallow that herald® the spring of an improved telephone .service for Hawera has arrived. Th e staff of the Post and Telegraph engineering branch was busy this afternoon unloading a consignment of automatic telephone parts, which came to hand by lorry. The goods are being put into store for the time being.