LICENSING ACT.
GOOD FRIDAY yjgJTORS.
<pcr' Press Association.) Thames, last night. Several licensing cases brought under the new Act eame before Magistrate 'Hush tio-day, several residents being charged with being on premises on Good Friday. In the cases where the Magistrate accepted tbe reason given as a lawful excuse, such us using the conveniences out. aide the hotel proper cs guoßts of the landlord. the informations wore dismissed. Wbora thn residents wont on tho premises, and weroV o ij-vited to tea, the Magistrate had not colored the promises as guests end could not bo treated as suohi In those cases convictions were recorded. The Magistrate dismissed the ehargos of exposing liquor for sale on Good Friday, on tbe'-gtound that the ooly persons, so far a 3 the evidence went to show, ifo whom the liquor wa3 exposed wore tho police. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1455, 16 May 1905, Page 3
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