AN IMPORTANT CASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 10 March 1911, Page 5

AN IMPORTANT CASE.

AN EX-HOTELKEEPER FINED

[press association.] (Received March 9, 9.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 9. At Leichhardt, a publican was .fined £30 for selling liquor without a license. The case was an important one, arising out of the last local option poll. The point involved affected altogether 183 licenses under the 1908 local option poll. Leich■hardt voted reduction., and defendant's hotel was ordered to be closed. At the 1910 poll Leichhardt favored ■continuance of the existing licenses. The-Magistrate decided that the 'term "existing license' 5 did not -.•roply to defendant's hotel, which was ' ordered to clcse at a given

period. .;,' A It is intended to take a test case 'to the Higher Court: and out the question, whether the closing of hotels applies to > where electorates voted reduction at one poll and continuance at a subsequent poll.