RACECOURSE DISTURBANCE.
INTERESTING L..GAL POINT
RAISED
[Per Press Association.]
NAPIER, April 19. In connection with a disturbance at the recent race meeting at Napier Park, John Biddy was charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day with using threatening behaviour. Counsel for the defendant raised the point that the police had failed to prove that the Napier Park racecourse was a public place within the meaning of the Police Offences Act. Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., said he would not say that the Napier Park racecourse was not a public place but it had to be proved that it was a course to which the public had access, either; free 9 r on payment of gate money, and that had not been done.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2480, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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121RACECOURSE DISTURBANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2480, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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