EXEMPTING JURORS.
... . ■ ■;. ;, - .'' »' "'- ■• /■ ■ ■ :.; .TEN APPLICATIONS TO. JUDGE. ; ... ,"I pray th.ee, hold me excused/ , quoth ' ten jurors (in .effect) to the Chief Jus- : i tice, Sir Robert. Stout,' in the Supreme .- .'Court yesterday. -Three of these suf- '; fcjred from, deafness—cnehad been deaf . .several years, one had no sense of hear- . ing -in ono. car, andVthe other's defcct'ive'hearing; had previously been testi- .';. lied, to. .;by a doctor, Two tradesmen, both of whom run small businesses in' ~ jNewtown, were, permitted io leavo be-- , ' cause His Honour'did not feel disposed to penalise small traders.!" A publican who ' did riot wish to leave his hotel was": also granted permission to return ;. ~t;>' his business; though His Honour re,v • ■ marked that this juror really ' offered '•;,' '.it-fcle* excuse. Onejuror, who is a well- , ~.' "> \sKdwn representative Rugby, player, and ■ . n-hp-ffigures prominently in Wellington . cricket was set.free in order that the business of 'the' , warehouse over which lie had been loftfin charge might not be.-affected. AnotherAyaq.a-jProof-reader oii.a daily hew'spftpS§r>*a'n« l ''two others were men who had' served on the grand
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7
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170EXEMPTING JURORS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7
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