ASHBURTON LICENCES
MOTION OF APPEAL •TO PRIVY
COUNCIL
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "the Evenlns Post") CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day. Notice of motion for leave to'appeal to the Privy Council against the decision of the Court of Appeal in tho Ashburton licencing case has been lodged by Messrs. Duncan Cotterill and Co., solicitors for the plaintiff. Joseph Sscales, hotelkeeper, of Ashburton. The case was heard in the Court of Appeal on 7th and Bth October, when plaintiff applied for a writ of certiorari against Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., and other members of the Mid-Canterbury Licensing Committee removing the plaintiff's application for a rant of a publican's licence in respect of the Somerset Hotel from the committee and quashing itj order refusing to hear the same,' and alternatively for a writ of mandamus commanding' the committee to hear such application. The Court on that occasion considered that the Licensing Committee had no jurisdiction to grant a licence. The Court, while admitting the injustice of the case, pointed out that legislation had failed to provide for the particular set of circumstances which had arisen from the alteration of the electoral boundaries.
The decision affects licences in several South Island districts and some in the North Island.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 14
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203ASHBURTON LICENCES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 14
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