LICENSING ACT.
LICENSES MAY BE RESTORED IN
ASHBURTON.
(For Press Association.) ' Christchurch, last nigh:
I It is rumorod in town that a flaw has I boon discovered in tho Lioousiog Act I whoioby it may bo poaaiblo to havo I lieonsos restored in Ashburton. The oouI toution is that tho spirit of the law whioh I requires a three-fifths m ■ jority in a proI hibitod electjrato bofuro liconsis oau bo rostorod is not olcavly expvossod in tho [ Statute, and that a ba’O majority of votos may bo suffioiout to havo tho hoio's roopeuod, though this daos nob sorm to bo borne out by reading cLuso 12 of tbo Alcobobo Liquor Sale Control Act Amendment, 1895, dettliug with tho restoration of lioensos.
Tho matter has boon placed in the hands of a c'ty firm of solicitors by ono of tho intorestsd parties.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1626, 14 December 1905, Page 3
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