SLY GROG AND ART UNION CASES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 7

SLY GROG AND ART UNION CASES.

DUNEDIN, January 23. Isabella Gleam, of the late Hotel Metropole at St. Cktir, but now keeping a private boarding establishment, was fined £55, with costs, for dy grog-selling. Bobert Breen, secretary of the Workers' Carnival, and William • Henry Ruttley, ' president of the* Trades and Labor Council, were prosecuted fox holding..an art union in connection with the recent workers' Carnival. Mr Barclay, in defence, admitted that, either fixmi carelessness or want of knowledge, the promotfTs included as prizes a number of things which were neither works of art nor literature. Mr Widdowson said that as the art union was not for the benefit of a few private, individuals, he would inflict a minimum penalty, £10 and costs.

Mr Cohen (MayoT of Palmereton North, and President of the North Island Braes Band Association), Mr Holben (secretary of N.1.8.8.A.), in company with the Mayor of HaweTa (Mr Robbnis) were on ■Wednesday shown over ' Hawera Borough abattoirs, the hospital, public swimming baths and were then taken to the top of the £re brigade tower, where thet visitors expressed themselves delighted with the splendid view obtained. Mr Cohen, in his run through the hospital, was very much struck with the up-to-date conveniences there and- more particularly with tbe female ward and operating room. He secured a photograph of the female ward in order to show it to the Palmereton North Hospital Board, of which Mr Cohen is a member.