LICENSING BREACHES.
PUBLICAN FINED. 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 the Rotary International, ISamuel Gibbons, then licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was yesterday fined £lO by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., for exposing loquor far sale after closing hour. 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 that a breach had occurred and his duty was to administer the law as he found it. He could not regard the .breach as trivial and dismiss the informations since that might, encourage others to disregard the law. Of three other charges in the same connection the police withdrew one, and Gibbons was convicted and discharged on the other two.
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Shannon News, 11 June 1926, Page 4
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146LICENSING BREACHES. Shannon News, 11 June 1926, Page 4
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