THE CLUB’S APPEAL
DECISION RESERVED. THE SALE OF LIQUOR ISSUE. FURTHER ARGUMENT HEARD. THE FULL COURT PROCEEDINGS. CONTENTIONS FOR THE' CROWN. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. The case, Edward Loftus v. Henry Martin, an appeal against conviction for selling liquor at the Ashburton Club, was continued before the Full Court yesterday afternoon. Further .argument along lines similar to those advanced in the morning was submitted by the Solicitor-Gen-eral, the main contention being that as a result of the local option poll of 1904 not only were hotel licenses in Ashburton cancelled, hut the charter of the club so far as it related to the sale of iiquor was suspended, and could not be revived under the present position of the electoral law. When the case was resumed to-day, further argument for respondent was adduced by junior counsel, in support of the Solicitor-General, his contention being that suspension of the club’s charter must subsist until the Ashburton poll of 1904 was superseded by a valid licensing poll in that district, i.e., a local option poll. Counsel for appellant was addressing the Court in reply when the luncheon adjournment was taken.
Later The Court reserved its decision.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 150, 6 April 1932, Page 6
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196THE CLUB’S APPEAL Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 150, 6 April 1932, Page 6
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