ANOTHER INTERVIEW.
OBJECTION BY COUNSEL.
Per Press 'AssociationCv Wellington, last night. Recently, after the Compensation Court announced that no award had been arrived at Mr -T- K. Macdonald, assessor for the Crown, gave the Post an interview, in which certain information was divulged la opinions expressed. Mr G. P-Skerratt, counsel for the proprietors of the estate, has written to the journal m question to the following effect :- “I am instructed by Sir George Clifford, on behalf of the claimants in the Flaxbourne case, to enter an nmobatlc protest against the publication of the interview with the Hon. T. K. MaC‘ aonald, assessor for ahe Crown, which appeared in your issue of the 28th Febru- i arv while the case was sub juduHv My clients prefer this course rather than to hrine the publication under the notice of the Supreme Court as contempt of Court. lam necessarily precluded from any reply tn Macdonald, or to any comment % whatever upon the case, and must content ♦Tovself with a formal protest against what ji consider to be a flagrant violation of tho J nle wbio b forbids comments upon a case '•&T: t while sub judice.” • .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1400, 10 March 1905, Page 3
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193ANOTHER INTERVIEW. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1400, 10 March 1905, Page 3
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