COURT OF APPEAL.
Pres» Association. Electric Telegraph Copyright. Wellington, July 13. Owing to the indisposition of Judge Cooper argument in the Newtown licensing case was not resumed to-day. A Full Bench of the Supreme Court, consisting of the Chief Justice and Justices Denniston, Conolly and Edwards, is hearing a motion by the Rev. James Cooke, of Wanganui, that au order made by the Wanganui Licensing Committee in April last for the issue of a new wholesale license to W. G. Turnbull and Co., be quashed, on the ground that by the issue of a new license the number of licenses in the Wanganui licensing district wonld be increased contrary to the provisions of section 14 of the Alcoholic Liquor Act, 1893. Mr Atkinson appeared in support of the application, Messrs Skerrett and Myers opposing. Mr Atkinson contends that so far as local option is concerned the Act of 1893 make 3no distinction between wholesale and other licenses. The Court has decided to take the Wanganui packet license case tomorrow.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 162, 13 July 1903, Page 3
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