IMPORTANT LICENSING DECISION.
THE LAW-MADE CHRISTMAS
[PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.!
THAME'S, Feb. 20. In a case wherein men were charged with an offence against the Licensing Act by being found on licensed premises on December 26, which the Legislature decreed should'be considered as Christmas Day-, the Magistrate, Mr Burgess, held that the offence was proved. In a lengthy judgment he quoted many authorities, and said: “When the words admit of hut one moaning, as in the present, the Court is not at liberty to speculate on. the intention of the Legislature. To depart from the actual meaning of the words of the Act is not to construe, hut to alter it. He convicted the defendants.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3150, 21 February 1911, Page 3
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114IMPORTANT LICENSING DECISION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3150, 21 February 1911, Page 3
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