Reviews

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 153, 26 July 1888, Page 3

Reviews

"We have received from Wilfred Badger, of Christchurch, hamster and solicitor, a copy of his book, entitled : " The Licensing Laws of Australia containing, in over four hundred pages of royal octavo, the full text (uith side- notes) of the Licensing Acts of the six Colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, ♦South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria. Each Colony's Acts and forms are f uliy indexed, and following the last of the Colonial Acts is a digest of 437 leading cases decided in England and the said six Colonies. All these cases are alphabetically arranged, and made most easy of reference, every part of each case being indexed under its appropriate letter. The cases of r-^ this digest are fully indexed, as also those mentioned in the introductory treatise. Following the above, and as if sufficient had not been given for the small sum charged for the book, Mr Badger adds a digest of 218 leading American cases, a single glance at any page, showing the extraordinary tact and ingenuity of the Transatlantic hotel swindler and thief, side by side with well-digested judicial decisions show ing an innkeeper's liability in many and varied cases. As showing the thorough manner in which Mr Badger has set about his work, we notice that in every Act at the end of sections there is a reference to the like provisions in the other five Colonies, not only the Act being itself quoted, but the sections also.