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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1926, Page 2

licensing act breach. NEW PLYMOUTH, Jufte JO, Arising out of a dinner given by tlie local Rotary Club on May, 17tli. to Everett Hill, Past President of the Rotarv International, Samuel Gil>bnns, then licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was yesterday fined £lO by Mr Hunt, S.M.. for exposing liquor for sale after the closing hours. The dinner took place late in the evening, and during the proceedings the police entered the room and saw bottles of claret on the tables. The Magistrate held a breach had occurred and his duty war 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. On three other charges in the same connection tlie police withdrew one and Gibbons was convijted and discharged on the other. DAIRY CONTROL PROTEST. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 10. A large meeting of Dairy Producers yesterdaev passed a resolution calling on Parliament to prevent absolute control being enforced; also protesting against any alteration in the present method of direct voting by individual producers.