LICENSING LAW.
AN ARGUABLE POINT. "FOUND" ON PREMISES. (Per Press Association). NELSON, May 26. Whether the term "found," in respect to persons on licensed premises after closing hours, means found by a police officer, or whether the evidence of other persons that the defendant was there could be taken as proof of the fact, was a point on which Mr Maunsell, S.M., and Senior-Sergeant Peterson found themselves at variance in the Magistrate's' Court to-day. . Mr Maunsell said he considered it necessary for a person to be found by a police officer. He convicted and discharged the defendant concerned, who was proved to have been found on the premises on the evidence of the licensee. In doing so, the Magistrate said he did not agree with the Crown Law Office on the matter, which should go to the Supreme Court for argument. The conviction, however, should not be taken as a precedent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 192, 28 May 1934, Page 7
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