A FEW HITCHES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 926, 5 December 1907, Page 21

A FEW HITCHES.

It is evident that the new laws as enacted by the recent local option vote in New South Wales, are not going to run quite as smoothly as expected. It has been cabled that a hitch has occurred in the’ Sydney Local Option Court. Counsel for a leading brewery firm raised the point that the reduction vote had not been carried according to the wording of the Act, and if carried had not been gazetted as the Act required. Another consideration in the matter of the recent liquor vote, which may prove as fatal, as the first, was that although the Act provided that in the event of no-license not being carried, the votes cast for no-license should be added to those in favour of reduction. It failed to make clear, or to state in any way, what should be done when this addition was made. Parliament may have intended that the total for reduction and no-license should be counted against the total for continuance, but this intention was not expressed in the Act.