ANTI SHOUTING LAW.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 1 February 1917, Page 6

ANTI SHOUTING LAW.

POLICE ACTION IN PALMERSTON It is reported (says the Standard) that plain-clothes police from another centre visited Palmcrston on Saturday .with the object of ascertaining how the anti-shouting regulations were being observed in the local hotels. Their investigations, it is stated, showed laxity in more than one instance, with tho result that more will be heard of tho matter in the Magistrate's Court in tho near future. A simultaneous descent was made on Feilding, where it is understood (that N invitajtJ|oi(s !to "have one" were also'in evidence and that prosecutions will follow It is understood that all the licensees in Feiding and the womenfolk in some of the hotels will be charged in the S.M. Court next Friday with having permitted shouting on their premises. AUCKLAND, Jan. 30. Lindsay Cooke, the licensee of the Queen's Ferry Hotel, was fined £25 for The charge of consuming liquor in repermitting "shouting" on his premises, spect of which the offence had been committed, was withdrawn. A barmaid at the hotel was fined £2 for supplying the liquor.