KEPT OPEN ON DECEMBER 26.
HOTELKEEPERS WIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Westport, January 15. The magistrate (Mr. Kawson, S.M.), in a-lengthy judgment, dismissed the informations charging hotclkeepers with selling liquor on December 2G, on the grounds that he considered tlie Legislature in passing, the Public Holidays Act was dealing exclusively with the question of fixing with precision what days should be treated os public holidays, and was not concerned with the question of public order which the closing of licensed premises would infer.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 4
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