LICENSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 165, 16 July 1903, Page 3

LICENSING.

THE NEWTOWN APPEAL. MR PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, July 15. 1 The Newtown licensing case was returned in the Appeal Court this morning, Mr Justice Cjoper bring sufficiently recovered .to taka his seat on toe Bench, Mr Skerrett resumed his argument in support of the motion for a uundamus and cited further cases as to the upon which. Acts of Parliament should be interpreted with special references to cases where general restrictions had been limited by the general scope of the statu' Messrs f«vi and Young follqwed. In elaborating his arguments; Mr Adams pointed out that the Act of ' I{J93 was entitled an Ace to give the people greater control over the granting and refusing of licenses, whence it came tbat licenses had no vested right to renewal which depended on the result of the poll when taken. Section 75 of the Act of 1881 is unrepealed, and the discretion there given to committees still exists. Section 21 of tha Act of 1893 only applies to districts divided into parts and, in any case, u liejici d by the words " until the period arrives for t-kii>g the near trien ial poll," Section 82 of tbe Act of 1881 «as a solution of all the difficulties of the cue, Anoth«r poll could be bed by the issue of a warrant of the G vernor. As to anomalies and absurdities »hatever they were, th-y must bave existed at the pall in 1896, and why thouldj they not contuetu esis*;. The Court! could no uitk the •xiensive ah eratins and esc ptiocs by his frien', Mr ftkerrett. ] Mr Adams' argument i-< sill uufiniehed. I During the course of the argument j the Chief Justice sugges'ed tbat the Magistrate may not have jurisdiction to void a poll, as it is only toe result of - the poll, tbat is the correctness of the votes, which he can ir quire into,