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CASE BEFORE SUPREME COURT. (Per Press Association— Copyright.) WELLINGTON, March 8. A principle of considerable importance to the motion picture industry in New Zealand js involved in an application for a mandamus which is before Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court. The case arose out of the refusal of Roy Maltby Girling Butcher, chief inspector under the Cinematograph Films Act, acting on an instruction from the Minister of Industries and Commerce, to grant an exhibitor’s license to Robert James Kerridge, of Gisborne, in respect of premises at Rotorua.
With the consent of counsel, His Honour made an order removing the case to the Court of Appeal for argument.
Mr G. C. Spratt appeared for Kerridge, and the Solicitor-General, Mr Fair, for the Crown. Mr Spratt said that plaintiff’s contention was that tlm Board of Trade (Cinematograph Films) Regulations were riot within the scope of Section 26 of the Board of Trade Act, which provided for the suppression or prevention of unfair or prejudical methods of competition, uneconomic trading and monopolies ; and that they are re. pugnant .to Section 82 of the Cinematograph Films Act, which prescribed the method of issuing licenses,
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1933, Page 4
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