SLUR ON PUBLICANS.
MAY NOT BECOME JUSTICES.
WEAK LINK IN LEGISLATION
By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHIUSTCULRCH, Tuesday.
At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers' Association, the president, Mr Arthur Hose, made some strong comments on the fact that a hotelkeper is not eligible for the office of Justice of (he I'eaee. Mr Lose .-aid that in a law-abiding community such .as they had witli millions invested in a lawful trade and
a trade which was collecting enormous revenue through the customs, it was , t .-lur that they should be debarred from holding such a position as Justice of tho Peace. This would go down to posterity as one of the weakest in any legislation dial bail ever been passed in any country.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16841, 6 July 1926, Page 5
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123SLUR ON PUBLICANS. Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16841, 6 July 1926, Page 5
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