LICENSING CHARGE DISMISSED
CONDUCT OF BOOTH AT RACES (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, February 23. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., gave his decision this morning in the licensing test case in which Matthew Henry Dawson was charged with a breach of the Licensing Act. The Magistrate held that no proceedings could be taken for a breach of a condition on which the licence was issued for a booth at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s summer meeting at Wingatui. The alleged breaches of the' conditions of the licence were that women were allowed in a public booth at the racecourse, and that the licensee exposed liquor to a woman. The Magistrate said that the facts did not support a charge of “allowing,” which required knowledge or something in the nature of connivance on the part of the licensee. Farther, the charge of exposing was clearly insupportable.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 13
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