The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1893.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 129, 20 April 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1893.

It would appear that the Judge who tried the cases under the Land Act at New Plymouth recently can b« indiscreet. He is reported to have said, with reference to the Government Auditor, " How was it that the auditor, as auditor, could have anything to do with enquiring whether a declaration was correct or not, and what need had he to trouble himself about it 1 He would say that if the Government adopted this plan of employing auditors as private detectives it was most discreditable, and he would not be doing his duty if he did not say it boldly and openly to the jury." His Honour does not appear to know that an auditor is ipsc j'ncta a detector of errors whether in declarations or iigures, whose duty it is to satisfy himself that all documents of any kind whatsoever which come within the limits of his duties have to be in perfect order. Failing to do this he fails in his duty to his employer. One would have thought that in face of recent events in the commercial world that a Jui'ge of the Supreme Court would have been one of the strongest upholders of these officials upon whom so much depends, instead of condemning one when he did his duty.