EXEMPT FROM JURY SERVICE
When eight men who had been called for jury service were applying for exemption in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) remarked that jury service might have to become an essential service, and the first, of essential services. He s’aid he had drawn attention months ago to the difficulties of obtaining jurors, and these difficulties had been increasing at each session. If lie was presiding at the next sifting a different course of exemption would have Io be adopted.
To a man who successfully applied for exemption on the ground that he was the proprietor of a one-man business, his Honour said that up to the present proprietors of one-man businesses bad been exempted not so much because of the inconvenience’ to themselves as because of the inconvenience to the public, but sm-li exemptions could not go on. The owner of a building in Manners Street, who said workmen were going in and out of the building dealing with earthquake damage, was granted exemption for the day.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 262, 4 August 1942, Page 3
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176EXEMPT FROM JURY SERVICE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 262, 4 August 1942, Page 3
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