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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1915, 25 November 1913, Page 9

The by-law passed by the Melbourne City Council some months ago forbidding any meeting to. be held on.Sun* days in licensed halls within tho munieiiiaiit.v, unless sueli meeting were of 3 religion?? ehaitioter, has (says tlio 1 'Australasian") boon more honoured art the breach t.h-in the observance so-far, slid at the last meeting of the council Aiderman Strong asked why tho law in question had not been put into operation. Alderman Jeffries said that machinery for prosecution was there, only it was not forking. The motive power, it appears, iB to bo supplied by the Health Department, but why tho alderman did not know. Alderman Burton, who is on the Health Committee, denied that Ilia' committee has stopped any proswution but if balls were unlicensed tlioy hart no power io prosecute. It was subsequently stated that there would be no longer any delay in putting tin's by-law into force. Where entertainments were held in registered hails, tho proprietors would lie prosecuted; whero tlioy Were held in unregistered ■halls tho proprietors would bo prosecntod for not. having them registered. The Sundav pieturo show, it will be seen, is threatened with oHroetion. Tho Political Labour Council havo re; solved "to maker every effort to upset Jhs, wM