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THE ANTI-SHOUTING FALLACY. Wellington, May 12. (Special to “Tribune.”) Counsel defending George Robert Wells, barman at the Zetland Hotel, Christchurch, who was fined £5 yester- • day by the Magistrate (Mr McCarthy) for permitting treating, vainly contended that the law was “dead as Julius Caesar.” “You must know, your Worship,” he stated, “that the law was not observed. If regulations were carried out you would have Mr Massey. Sir Joseph Ward, all the. Judges of the Dominion, to say nothing of local solicitors before the Court.” The Magistrate, however, held that as long.as the Act'was on the Statute Book it must be observed, and to emphasise fliis he fined defendant Hie amount stated.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 126, 12 May 1920, Page 5
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