WESTPORT LIQUOR CASES.
, TRADING ON -2&1 DECEMBER. INFORMATIONS" DISMISSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) \ ' WESTPORT, Last Night. Magistrate Rawson, in a lengthy judgment, dismissed the informations in the charges against a number of hotelkeepers for selling liquor on 26th December, on the grounds that he considered that the Legislature, in passing the Public Holidays Act, was dealing exclusively with the question of fixing, with precision, what days should be treated as public holidays, and was not concerned with the • question of the public irder which the closing of the license'] premises would infer. He furth-jr considered that to apply the Act to section 189 of the Licensing Act would,.'without the provision of i!--f last three lines of. the Act, have t!> I effect of closing the hotels frouv i) p.m. on Sunday, and that it could not be applfed to the provision iv. the proviso without making' nonseo e ' of it.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 5
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149WESTPORT LIQUOR CASES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 5
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