A LICENSING DECISION
THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Westport, Last Night. Jlr. Rawson, S.AI., in a lengthy decision, dismissed the informations charging hotelkeepers with selling liquor on 20th December, 011 the grounds that he considered the Legislature in passing the Public Holidays Act was dealing exclusively with the question ot' fixing with precision what days should be treated as public holidays, and was not con cerned with the question of public order, which the closing of licensed premises would infer. He further considered that to apply the Act to section 180 of the Licensing Act would, without the provision of the last three lines of the Act, have the effect of closing hotels from ten p.m. 011 Sunday, and that it could not be applied to the provision without making nonsense of it.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 17 January 1911, Page 5
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134A LICENSING DECISION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 17 January 1911, Page 5
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