WAR REGULATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14473, 7 December 1917, Page 8

WAR REGULATIONS.

i PROTEST AGAINST FiNES. f At a meeting of the Gisborne Hotel Workers' Union last evening, strong exception was taken to what wa--. termed the "unjustly severe" fines imported by Mr W. A. iiartoii, S.M., m the recent anti-sho^itin_ prosecutions, and tlie foi- , Lowing resc-i ut ions were carried unanimously : — (1) "ill at the un An protests against the War Rrgu. ation pi-oii. -biting the practice of treating. inasjmu-h as the said regulation is an unwan anted and uncalled for interference with fractional, and social habits of a largo .sv.tio:i of tlie public. (2) Tills*- union pivlcsl.s "'m-.'hei- against the sard regulation m that ii authorises < as- part of the punishimont the drastic penalty of debarring an- hotel employee convicted, thereunder from following his or her eniiployment for a. term of six "months. ("■>) That the union also condemns the imposi-ive of £50 lines m the two eases heard at Gisborne. on Tuesday, Docembor 4. (4) That other labor or-' ganisatiotic^ ho. approached with a. viewto making representation. 1 * foi* the repeal or modification of the regulation m question. (5) That copies of these resolu- / tions b a sent to the member for the district, the Minister for Justice, the Attor-ney-GcMwrai. and all Labor members of Parliament. \