A Licensing Case.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11754, 3 October 1902, Page 5

A Licensing Case.

Per, Press Association,

DUNEIHN, October 2.

In the Supreme Court a case was heard of Plant v. Mclllveney, an appeal from the decision of the Magistrate at Invertargill, who convicted appellant of an offence against the Licensing Act. The qu&stion was whether an unc'hartered club could supply members with liquor for a monetary consideration. The defendant, who was steward of the Commercial Privaite Club, wasl found guilty of a sale. Justice Williams, without calling on the respondent, said he had no doubt the decision of the Magistrate was right. He apprehended that in the Act of 1893 a chairter was equivalent to a iicense, and that ia sale in a. club without a license would be within the meaning of sectioln, 159. If there was nothing in the Act for granting charters to clubs, section 59, on the authority of Englisfli cases, would! not prohibit such a sale. The distinction between English cases and the present one is that in England'the section corresponding to section 159 stands1 alone, andl that there is no neferenc© in the English Act to licensing clubs. Our Act, on the contrary, in addition to section 159, contains provision for granting charters which are equivalent to a license. TThe appeal was dismissed with 10 guineaiS! cost*.