SIX O’CLOCK CLOSING.
PECULIAR POSITION IN AUSTRALIA
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. Received July 23, 12.40 a.m. Sydney, July 22. Tn a case in which the licensee of a wine bar was prosecuted for selling liquor after six o’clock the magistrate ruled no offence had been committed, and that al) publicans were empowered to keep open till eleven o’clock for the sale of liquor, as the referendum provided for in the Act had not been taken. The Minister of Justice says the magistrate will be asked to state the case for the opinion of the Supreme Court, and, pending final determination, proceedings will be taken against all persons keeping open after six o’clock.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19210723.2.40
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
111SIX O’CLOCK CLOSING. Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.