INTERESTING LICENSING CASE.
WELLINGTON, -December 21. A local publican was prosecuted for selling' liquor when the hotels were required to be closed during the epidemic. The defence took the line that the men served were boarders living in the hotel, and that the authorities had no power to cancel that portion of the Licensing Act which allowed boarders to be served. Beyond this, it was oontended that the selling of ' liquor had fcever been legally prohibited, inasmuch as the Gazette notice required the approval Of the Minister before it became operative, And there was no evidence of such approval. Mr Frazer, S.M., upheld this contention, And suggested that the Health Department idid not understand its own order.. There ■was no statement of approval by the' Minister given in the advertisements published by the department, and no proof that it had •rer been given. The information was disffdosed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3380, 25 December 1918, Page 37
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147INTERESTING LICENSING CASE. Otago Witness, Issue 3380, 25 December 1918, Page 37
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