A FAIR DEPUTATION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 884, 14 February 1907, Page 22

A FAIR DEPUTATION.

The New South Wales Licensing Act possesses many peculiar features. Some little time back the Licensing Court in a northern town he.d that a young man who was courting a girl employed in a hotel had a perfect right to be on the licensed premises during prohibited hours while he was attending strictly to the original business which attracted him there. That decision has had its result. While Mr J. W. Fletcher relieving police magistrate at Maitland was at Bulahdelag a few days ago he was waited upon by a deputation of young ladies who, in the most charming and modest manner possible, asked would it be lawful for members of the deputation, who were engaged at hotels, to see their “boys” on the premises on Sunday nights, and could the aforesaid “boys” visit their “girls” at the hotels without transgressing the regulation of the licensing law. Mr Fletcher, with an eye perhaps to future developments, assured the young ladies that the course of true love would be permitted to run unbrokenly so far as the law was concerned, adding so long as nothing was done in contravention of the Act. The members of the deputation were delighted.