LICENSING LAWS.
A ROYAL COMMISSION
[Press Association.]
AUCKLAND, Dec. 22
A large deputation, representing various temperance and religious bodies, interviewed the Premier this morning, requesting the Government to appoint la Royal Commission to investigate allegations made in respect to the administration, of the law in connection with the granting of hotel licenses. Sir Joseph Ward said a. grave charge had been made against certain Magistrates and Justices of the Peace, and it was the duty of the Government to have these charges investigated to ensure that the people of the Dominion should have pure ‘administration of justice. He promised that a Royal Commission would be set up as soon as possible to investigate the specific charges made, but he would not agree to the Commission undertaking a tour of the country to investigate the general administration of the licensing la tv.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2381, 23 December 1908, Page 5
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141LICENSING LAWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2381, 23 December 1908, Page 5
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