SUITABILITY OF A JUSTICE.
Whilst replies:-to. questions were>under con- i ,'sideration yesterday,' Mr. Field, M.P. for Otaki, referred to a question put by Mr. Massey as to whethor >it was: a fact, as stated;.by a-corre-spondent in r The Dominion of November 12, that one. of the recently-appointed Justices 'Of the Peace was some timo. ago fined .£lO and,costs'for threatening to shoot a ranger. In reI ply .the Minister for. Justico had stated that tho Government had no information on the subject. : Mr.-.Field, pointed''out that tho. justice in question was,some 17 or 18 years ago, when quite.a young inan,-charged with having shot, a' hare without licensc or out •of season. It was,- true that ' somo altercation took place between the man'and a ranger. >He would like, to'mako it clear" that: theman was -fined for; the, illegal shooting: and. not,for having threatened to shoot the ranger or anything of the kind. , In the district where ho lived the justice was a leading resident,. and was in every way fitted to hold b commission-of the p&ce,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 668, 19 November 1909, Page 5
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173SUITABILITY OF A JUSTICE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 668, 19 November 1909, Page 5
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