POLICE REFUSE PERMIT

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 8

POLICE REFUSE PERMIT

Full Court Considering Question of Wrestling Control RIGHTS TO HOLD CONTESTS REGULATIONS DISPUTED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, To-day. The Full Court to-day is considering the dispute between the National Sporting Club (incorporated), Wellington, and Ml- W. G. Wohimann, Commissioner of Police, and Police Inspector G. J 3. Edwards. An originating summons before the court asks for an order on the following points :

That regulation eight of tlie Police Oltenees (wrestling contest) Regulations, 1981, is invalid as being beyond the powers conferred on the GovernorGeneral by section 72 of the Police Unences Act, 1927.

That the plaintiff is entitled to a permit to hold a wrestling contest between Earl McCTeady, of Canada, and George Walker at the Wellington Show Association’s stadium on June 8, such permit having been wrongfully withheld. That t]ie plaintiff is entitled to a, permit to hold wrestling contests at any lawful times. In an affidavit filed with the court, vVohlmann stated that in the past the National Sporting Club had engaged certain wrestlers to compete in contests, and those wrestlers subsequently wore unable to leave New Zealand on account of a lack of finance and had to be assisted by the New Zealand Union. After some legal discussion it was finally agreed that the following questions .should bo decided by the court: 1. Is regulation eight valid? 2. Is a police inspector entitled to refuse a license as a matter of course. 3. If he is not, what is the. limit of liis discretion?