Respect For The Law Is Declining
AUCKLAND, April 20. Today in almost every country in the democratic world, some citizens are openly saying thingg which fall or nearly fall within the definition of ''treason," said * Mr. A. K. North K.C., in addressing the seventh Dominion legal conference on "The Law and Public Conscience." . Every lawyer, he thought, would agree that respect for the law was 011 the decline. The process had been going- on for some years "even within our own gates," he added. "We ' see disruptive elements at work intent 011 undermining the State on all sides. We see people who either hold certain laws in contempt .or who decline to obey the laws they find irksome or with which' they are not in agreement." "Today we see some union officials brazenly defying the law and exerting in public every effort to prevent law abiding union members from going to their work." /VWWWWNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^WWWW
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1949, Page 5
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