A QUESTION OF COSTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 4

A QUESTION OF COSTS.

/'::: :iNmLui)B j-cooel %*£% ; vMiv; H,/H;;.Os^leTi: l pf;the^C^ ; ivi ;Lot?^:" ; ;.; Office", .-appeared,'for the prosecution, ia'';. ■• ,B;case:' brought by /;;the i/Registrar/oi// Friendly;■: Societies..."..".lit the case, - / Mr.;. : Ostler.masked /for; cosfej-an&^i';' the; : Magistrate |.:(Mr;;^AE;/Ha^den)yS : then': ..remarked;; thai;, that;-: raised;/; tbVJ : - ■" ■ .question as.tbi whether;or'not'.Govern^/;v;;: merit- servants-; werei;entitled'" to.'''xostal j;i//'; "I "jshat/.tbat has. no thing' to •:^;. ; do: with: the:; caise;; your"Worship,"; Mr. Ostler.. /"I am /here' as a barrister;" /• \'■ of ./.the.; Mr.; Ostler/also /re-///'fc markedythat: or.'-the:sMioriejrGeneral ; 'appeared".in.:",;/'./ the;; vSripreniez-;": Court, ' /the"', practice. ,'.';' throughout; New; Zealand' was to"]='jgnmtjv\rj ;- costs.. In reply/to -this,- the Magistrate?-v-';: said - that' the; question;; of ) allowing:' costs. v, to"corporations.had beeri mentioned some;:/.;;! time ago,;..and'it,was seen that if they,/;;.:/ were.allowed costs tlieir7s6licitors : ,woula./ make large. profits -//;- ..the : money - will : not ; go'into my/pocket;;/'', // your .;Worship,"'said/Mr./ Psuer.>;//'«/;/.;;V has" .been the". policy Hof' the : Gbyernmerit : ,/ :.. • to have thesalary qfjthe Crown Solicitor;;" % paid .as much/as; Accordingly/solicitor's-fee';was. aUpw^'/ : A;