HOTELS AND HOLIDAYS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13277, 17 January 1911, Page 3

HOTELS AND HOLIDAYS.

(Per' United Press Association). WDSTPORT, J aunary 16. Magistrate Rawson, in ai.lengthy judgment, dismissed the informations.ciiarging hotelkeepers _>vitli selling liquor on December 26,.0n, the grounds that ho-considered the Legislature,, in passing the Public Holidays Act* was dealing' exclusively wijJi the question of fixing with precision what days- should be, treated as public, holidays, and: wa,s not concerned, with the question, of public, ordc.r, which the closing ,of licensed premises would infer. He further, considered -iliat to aWy.the Act .to-sec-tion.' a,.. ..of the Licensing Act would,.without; tl|c, provision of the last.three lines of the Act, have the effect of closing"ho-' tels'from 10 p.m. on Sunday, and that'it could not be applied ito the provisional proviso without imaging nonsense, of ..ft..,,; p