LICENSING BREACHES
,;< CONFIDENTIAL FILES V^JtEQIJEST FOB pßbrpxfcrrON PJL ' WELLINGTON, this day. Before the Licensing Commission, Mr. Willis, counsel representing the Crown, asked for a ruling in connection with a request by Mr. R. Hardie Boys, representing the New Zealand Alliance,;that the Police Department reveal certain confidential files. The Department had: no objection to producing them before members of the commission, but they contained much information relating to informers who had been .responsible for instituting proceedings for breaches of the licensing laws. It was not desirable, he said, that the information sought should be made public. Files pertaining to King Country prosecutions were similarly involved. Mr. Justice Smith pointed out that » the sources of information of the police were not available even to the Court. ■ . Mr. Boys said he was not seeking the names of informers. The only object was to get proper records before the commission especially in cases which had not been.-reported in law reports. - ■■• ' ..' ■ : - Mr. Willis suggested that the files should be produced and the chairman, could decide as each case arose. The chairman agreed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1945, Page 6
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