FILM EXHIBITORS
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ROTORUA LICENS'E: REFUSAL SUBJECT OF APFEAL BY R. J. KERRIDGE OF GISBORNE ARGUMENT HEARD
-By Telegraph— Copyrlgnt).
Wellington, Wednesday A principle of considerable importance to the motion picture industry in New Zealand was involved in an application for a mandamus -which was before Mr. Justice Ostler in tbe Supreme Court. The case arose out of the refusal of Roy Maltby Girling-Butcher, chxef inspector under the Cinexnatograph Films Aet, acting on instructions from the Minister of Industries and Commerce to grant an exhibitor's license to Robert James Kerx*idge, of Gisborne, in respect of premises a*c Rotorua. \ With consent of counsel, His Honour made an order removing the case fx*om the Court of Appeal for arguxnent. Mr. S.*C. Spratfc appeared for j Kerridge, and the Solicitor-General ! Mr. A. Faix*, for the Crown. Mr. Spratt Said that plaintiff's, contention was that the Board of Trade Cinematograplx films regulations were not within the seope of Section 26 of tho Board of Trade Act which provided for the suppression or prevention of unfair or prejudicial methods of competition, uneconomic trading and monopolies, and that they were repugnant to section 32 of the Cine-
Minister of Indur.lrieo and Commerce matograph Films Aet, which prescribed tho methods of issuing tlxe license. (The case is proceeding)
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 476, 9 March 1933, Page 5
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