“POLICE NO RIGHT TO VETO”
PERMIT FOR AUCKLAND MEETING. TEST OF CITY BY-LAW SUGGESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 7. The opinion that the police had no right to veto the permit granted by the City Council for the holding of a meeting was expressed by the magistrate, Mr. McKean, during the prosecution of James Henry Edwards and Roderick F. Rowlands on charges of holding a meeting on a city park on a recent Sunday without a permit. Both admitted the technical breach, but formally pleaded not guilty in order to "discover, if possible, who has the final authority to grant permits for meetings.” Edwards stated that the Minister of Justice, in a letter to him, said that the City Council had the sole authority in the matter, and he (Edwards) wanted to know why the police had power to veto any permit. ■ The magistrate again expressed the view that the by-law should be tested in the Supreme Court, and adjourned both cases for a week to see whether an appeal is lodged in a similar case heard recently.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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