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the practice to provide each distributor of handbills with a chopped copy containing the approval which he could show to any police officer.
4. A more recent magisterial decision under the 1932 Ordinance has held that the distribution of handbills was not covered by the paragraph in question.
5. The object of Clause 2 of this amending Bill is to bring the distribution of handbills again within the mischief against which the paragraph is aimed.
6. Clause 3 of this Bill prohibits the unauthorised deface- ment of rocks or road-cuttings in or near any public place. The soft disintegrating granite of the Colony, through which most of its beautiful hillside motor-roads and foot-paths are cut, is easily carved with a knife or sharp stick with the result that, in the absence of a prohibition, much of the beauty of these roads and paths has been marred by slogans, devices, names and other efforts at self-expression carved by idle loiterers.
August, 1936.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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