GRAND-JUROR FINED
Late Appearance at Court "DOING A MAN A FAVOUR" Failure to put in an appearance when his name was called for the Grand Jury in the Supreme Court at Napier this morning cost a bank manager, Mr. B. B. Waddington, one gui- . nea. On his giving Sir John Reed, the presiding Judge, the excnse that he was trying to do a inan a favour at the fLme he should have been at Court, te fine was xeduced from that of £5 5/imposed as soon as a constable had 'given proof of service of the jury summons. , 4lMy absence was not due to my banking business," explained Mr. Waddington when asked by his Honour why he was not in attendance. "I was called away trying to gei a reference for a man. I was trying to do him a good turn." His Honour: Well, Mr. Waddington, I will reduee the iine, but I cannot disregard the matter altogether. I will reduee thc fine to £l 1/-. ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 167, 2 August 1937, Page 8
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