SUNDAY GOLF.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13858, 19 April 1917, Page 4

SUNDAY GOLF.

BY-LAW ULTRAVIRES,,; : MAGISTERIAL DECISION UPHELD. (Per Press Association) : ■\VELLINGT6N 1 -ApriHß. Tho Pull k Court delivered" judgment this morning in the ease of Doyle V. Whitehead, in tho Sunday golf case. Tho Court was unanimous in upholding fhe decision of the magistrate, that the by-law which'prohibited playing or, practising golf on Sundays upon any reserve vested in tho Wellington City. Couucil was ultra vires and -invalid. The Court, held that .the by-law to enforce Sunday observance, and it,was. therefore contrary to section .347 of: the Municipal, Corporation- Act,"; 1908.'Th? Court also held: that it was invalid,'as being unreasonable.■■ ;was the'ref6re 'dismissed, with £lO .-. cbsis,' : z--