APPEAL CASES.
VALIDITY OF BY-LAWS. By Mograpli.—Press Association. \Vi_-Hini;lon, .Tniy Tlio Chief Justice to-day delivered jiuliinieni in llii' e.ve of appeali from flic de'-i<ioi! of the Magistrate. Kmily Thomas was convicted ami lined for keeping a house of iil-fume. The o:isc turned on a point of the validity of tile Wellington eity by-law as to tile <Oll- - of one-wom:in brothel-;. Sir Robert Stout lield that llie liv-law was invalid, and allowed the appeal. Tin- ease of the Wellington Harbor Hoard veisns the I'nion Stc.tnisliip Co., conccrnin;.'; the validity of a by-law providinj; for a charjjce of sixpence per ton <>y way of a harbor improvement rate on inward tnui-ihipment poods, except ynods the product of the Dominion,, or to he shipped oiu of the Dominion, ill so ar as the by-law related to defendants' '''!>< carrying (lie San I'ranciseo mails, ' " t'llii■ 1" .luciii'o held that the law was "a vires, and that the .suicmiaiiu' ii' . -learners were exempt. j =—=*. j
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1916, Page 7
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159APPEAL CASES. Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1916, Page 7
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