LIQUOR ON CHRISTMAS DAY
lIOTELKEEPERS CONVICTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, Monday. In a case in which some men were charged with an offence against the licensing Act for having been found on licensed premises on December 26, which the Legislature decreed should be considered as Christmas Day, the Magistrate, Mr. Burgess, held that the offence was proved. In a lengthy judgment lie quoted many authorities, and said that when words admit of but one meaning, as in the present case, the court is not at liberty to speculate on the intention of the Legislature. To depart from the actual meaning of the words of the Act was not to construe it but to alter it. He convicted defendants.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 21 February 1911, Page 2
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118LIQUOR ON CHRISTMAS DAY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 21 February 1911, Page 2
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