DELAYED PROSECUTION
QUERY IN PARLIAMENT - (Special.) WELLINGTON, October 22. Reference to a statement made by the Chief Justice, Sir M. Myers, in the Supreme Court dt Palmerston North on Tuesday at the retriai of Charles Gough was made in the House yesterday by Mr Endeau. He gave notice of his intention to ask the At-torney-General to explain the reason for the delay in giving his consent to the retrial of Gough, branch secretary of the Dairy Factory Workers’ Union, on a charge of making a subversive statement to the employees of the Oroua Downs Dairy Factory on February 24. Mr Endean said, byway of note to Jus question, that consent -s given two days before the expiration of six months. The Chief Justice had slated that 700 years ago there was extracted from a despotic, recalcitrant king a charer’ of English liberty in which it was stated that justice shall not.be delayed.
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Evening Star, Issue 24332, 22 October 1942, Page 4
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152DELAYED PROSECUTION Evening Star, Issue 24332, 22 October 1942, Page 4
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