A NEW RULE
'ADJOURNMENTS BECOMING '& NUISANCE.
(By ToleßTaph.-Spccial. Correspondent.) Auckland, January 17. "I am going to make a new rule," 6aid Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. "In fxituro I shall not grant any adjournments excepting in cases whero good reasons aro shown, or on the written application of the judgment dobtor." The constant adjournments woro becoming a nuisance, added the magistrate. The praotice of taking out summonses for the purposo of pressing people who had to pay the adjournment fees was a wrong one,'"and must bo discontinued. When tho summons was token out a declaration was made that there was good, reason to boliovo that tho debtor was in, a position to pay. ■ , "When such cases come before the Court in future," aaid Mr.'Kottle. -."I Bhall exI pect tho judgment creditor to show what the 'good reason' was. In somo cases there havo been a dozen adjournments, which all mean fees. That practice I am going to stop.", _^^_____
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19130118.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
163A NEW RULE Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in