OUTSPOKEN AND GRAVE CHARGE.
BANEFUL INTERFERENCE WITH MAGISTRATES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! Auckland, October 31. Some strong comments were passed on our judicial system as relating to magistrates, by Mr. H. W. Northcroft, S.M., this ■ afternoon, when a ' presentation was made to him on his retirement from the magisterial bench. "Our magistrates are not independent,"! said--Mr. Northcroft., "They are subject" too much to political interference." He went on to say. that this constituted a grave danger to the fairness and impartiality vita, which, a magistrate ought to carry out his. work. "Magistrates," he continued, "had industrial and other disputes brought before them outside their usual judicial work, and a-constant endeavour was made from influential sources to bring them undor the whip." In concluding, Mr. Northcroft said that'it was the duty of citizens in this young Dominion, while there. was yet time, to move in the matter of making magistrates as independent as Supreme Court judges.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 962, 1 November 1910, Page 4
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154OUTSPOKEN AND GRAVE CHARGE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 962, 1 November 1910, Page 4
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