LICENSING LAW RULING
Disagreement Between Magistrates DUNEDIN COMMENT ON CHRISTCHURCH CASE (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 7. “Absolutely contrary to what the body of Magisterial opinion has been.” was the description given today by Mr J. D. Willis, senior Dunedin Magistrate, to comments by Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on May 4. Mr Ritchie had said that a decision of the Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrcwclough) that bona-fide guests of lodgers in a hotel could be admitted to the bar after hours cut right across what every Magistrate had acted on for many years. In the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court today, Mr Willis said that it had always been understood by the great majority of Magistrates that bona-fide lodgers might entertain their guests. He entirely disagreed that the view of the Chief Justice cut across Magisterial opinion.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 13
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