SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENT

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 5

SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENT

LABOUR PARTY’S APPEAL CASE IN SUPREME COURT (Fear Prees Association). Auekl a nd, A 1 aoh 22Questions of law govening the holding of Sunday evening entertainments were argued before Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court.

Tlie case, was an appeal by the Auckland branch, of the Labour Party against it s conviction and fine by Mr YY. It. McKean, 8.M., for hold 7 ing an entertainment on a Sunday ovenig, without having first obtained the permission of the City Council.

\ suggestion by his Honour that the case should be taken to the Court of Appeal wa snot accepted on the ground of expense.

His Honour said he had formed a very definite view during the course of the proceedings that the section made it penal to hold a. concert or entertainment or any kind open to the public on Sunday, Good Friday or Christinas I>ay. It- had been hdd by Air Justice Herdm.au that the question whether admission " as paid or not did not enter into the matter, so that the whole point to be decided wa s whether there wa s cm this occasion, an entertainment. It wa s true that the whole function could not properly be described ns an entertainment, but it was Perfectly clear that for half the time there was vbnt was strictly within the meaning of tli-e- word entertainment. It was probably subsidiary to tlie principal object of tlie meeting, but it undoubtedly formed an attraction, and be thought it wa s an integral port of the programme. Tt really was probably the .greatest inducement t° a. large number of these present. It was clear the appellant wa s responsible for tjhe holding of an entertainment jmd the appeal would ho dismissed, with £7 7s costs and disbursements.