LICENSING ELECTION.
DISPUTE AS TO EXPENSES,
[(Per Press Association.)' Invercargill, last night.. To-day the Southland County sued the Winton Borough for its share of the lioensing expenses of the Awarua district which the defendant body refused to pay until the amount*aet forth in the certificate of the chairman of the lioensing committee for members* expenses of attending meetings was reduced to the actual cost of travelling. It appeared that a few years back the total expenses ran from a pound or two to nil, but amounted to £24 this year. The former S.M. (who was at Winton on Court business anyway) did not charge expenses, but Mr McCarthy, S.M., as Chairman of the Committee, had received a guinea, several members one pound, and those living within three miles from Winton ten shillings per sitting. Mr Orniekshank, S.M. (Gore) was on the bench, Magistrate Riddel being interested. He doubted whether he had power to deal with the certificate made by a_ brother magistrate, and took tiiPß to consider, _
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1458, 19 May 1905, Page 2
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167LICENSING ELECTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1458, 19 May 1905, Page 2
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