ASHBURTON LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2303, 16 December 1889, Page 2

ASHBURTON LICENSING COMMITTEE.

TO THE EDITOR. Bib,— l note from the report fa foav paper, tbat a speolal meettog of the above Committee was held to consider the question as to "whether 01 not they should grtnt licenses, ahocld euoh be •p piled f r, for the sale of iu'oxloatlog l!quoc on the sport* groand In the Domain." Can you tell me, Mr Editor of any olause In the Licensing Aot, which given the Committee power to convene spechl meetings to consider •« what la hot before them," can yon Inform mo by what tight, deoenoy or jostles (I will not mention common teoie) these anxloDßgaaidtans " Mesirs Aleorn, Bruddel and Danoan, dealt with a matter wbloh they oould only presume might come before them? It appears to me a most unwarrantable and ■rbifcary aolion— a piece of unheard of preanooptlon on the part of theie gentlemon, thua to prejudge mctters and Interfere with the rlghti and privilege! of the freebom Britisher. What ihoald we think and say If a magistrate were to deolde a cane as soon as It hai come under hie notice that a summons had been Issued, without awaiting the appointed &*y for hoarlDg, and without hearing either what the prosecutor 01 saouidd bad to sty 1 Barely it la Una© that the ratepayers'voices were railed •gainst the übjuifc proceedings of such fanatics. — Yoan, &o; Hcrao FBIBSL4KDI&, Ashburton, D'Oembe- 16, 1889.