SELLING LIQUOR ON CHRISTMAS.
: (Per Press Association.) .-.."-, ..'.■V' ' Westport, January i 6. ..' ,-The,.Magistrate (Mr Rawson, S.M.), in a lengthy judgment, dismissed the information charging'hotelkeepers, with selling' liquor on the 26th December, on the, ground that he considered the -Legislature in passing the Public Holi-" days Act was dealing exclusively with, the question of defining with precision what days should he treated'as public holidays, and was not concerned with the (question of public order which thjs. closing of licensed premises would in- : fer. ■'., He further considered that to apply the Act to section 189 of the Licen-' sing Act would, without the provision r in the last three lines of the Act, have the effect of closing hotels from 10 p.m. on Sunday, and that it could not be appliedvto"./the provision without making" nonsense of it. '
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10667, 17 January 1911, Page 2
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135SELLING LIQUOR ON CHRISTMAS. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10667, 17 January 1911, Page 2
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