THE RECENT EPIDEMIC
CLOSING OF HOTEL BARS.
REGULATIONS GHALLENS-ED.
(Pee United Pbess Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 20.
Legal argument as to the validity of the orders closing tho hotels and prohibiting the sale of liquor during the epidemio occurred in the Police Court to-day, when certain licensees were prosecuted for having sold liquor during the time mentioned. Counsel for the defendants maintained— (1) Assuming that the warrants issued by the Government be good, it was necessary to prove that tho Minister of Public Health had approved of th o exercising of the powers to closo\ the bars; (2) that the powers given to the health officers were too extensive; (3) that there had been a delegation of his powers by tho Governor-Gen-eral, and that such a delegation was not authorised by Parliament; (4) that the Govornor-General's warrants wore unreasonable, in that their scope was. such as to prohibit tho sale of li&uor for any purpose. even by chemists in cases of life and death; (5) that the notices issiied to the licensees did not show upon their faces that they wero approved by the Minister. Judgment was reserved.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17504, 21 December 1918, Page 7
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