MOTION-PICTURE LICENSE
REFUSAL TO EXHIBITOR. WRIT OF MANDAMUS SOUGHT. Wellington, March 8. A principle of considerable importance to the motion-picture industry in New Zealand is involved in an application for mandamus which is before Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court. The case arose out of the refusal of Roy Maltby Girling-Butcher, chief inspector under the Cinematograph Filins Act, acting on instruction from the Minister of Industries and Commerce, to grant an exhibitor’s license to Robert James Kerridge, of Gisborne, in respect of premises in Rotorua.
With the consent of counsel his Honour made an order removing the case to the Court of Appeal for argument. Mr F. C. Spratt appeared for Kerridge, and the Solicitor-General (Mr A. Fair) for the Crown. Mr Spratt said that the plaintiff’s contention was that the Board of Trade (Cinematograph Films) regulations were not within the scope of section 26 of the Board of Trade Act, which provided for the suppression or prevention of unfair or prejudicial methods of competition, uneconomic trading and monopolies, and that they were repugnant to section 32 of the Cinematograph Films Act, which prescribed the method of issuing licence:'.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 8
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