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Section

Section

9 (2) (3)

22 (2) (h) .

(3.)

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These have been inserted to provide for filling up vacancies in case of

the death or absence of Licensing

Justices.

The question of the employment of women in public bars has engaged the

attention of the Government as also

of the Un-Official Members of the

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Council, and this amendment was in-

-serted on the representation of the Licensing Board, established under

the repealed Ordinance (45 of 1909), and it was strongly represented that

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Section

41 (1).

the conditions prevailing in the Far

East justify such an exceptional pro-

-vision and one not in accordance

with English law or custom.

The duties imposed on intoxicating

liquors imported into distilled made

or prepared in the Colony under the

provisions of sub-section (1) of sec-

-tion 3 of 27 of 1909 have been can-

-celled by Resolution of the Legisla-

-tive Council on the 16th of March

instant, and the Government thought it

better, as the duties are from time to

time to be imposed by Resolution, to

insert such a general power and not

to incorporate the new tariff in the

Ordinance, but at the same time to

preserve the duties assessed under