A ROTARY DINNER
AND LICENSING LAW CLARET ON THE TABLE. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 10. Arising out of a dinner given by the local Rotary Club on May 7th to Mr Everett Hill, past president of Rotary International, Mr Samuel Gibbons, then licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was yesterday fined £lO by Mr Hunt, S.M., for exposing liquor for sale after the closing hour. Th© dinner took place late in the evening, and during the proceedings th© police entered the room and saw bottles of claret on the table. The magistrate held that a breach of the law had been committed. Hi 6 duty was to administer the law as he found it. He could not regard the breach as trivial, and dismiss the information, since that might encourage others to disregard the law. three other charges in the same connection the police withdrew one, and Gibbons was convicted ana discharged on the other two.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12470, 11 June 1926, Page 3
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154A ROTARY DINNER New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12470, 11 June 1926, Page 3
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