CRITICISM OF JUDGE
The Official Labour Organ WAS IT CONTEMPT OF COURT? (By Telegraph— Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Last Night. When the House of Representatives met this afternoon, Mr W. J. Polson, (Nat., Stratford), asked the Minister of Justice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, whetber he had seen an attack on one of the Supreme Court judpes in the official organ of the Labour Party, The Standard, on August 19, iii conneetion with the Otago clerical workers' disputo, in which it said: "The man can-' j not even read tlie law aright, to say nothing of his understanding of contemporary' indus^rial history.- The man cannot even state the. ordinaTy everyday facts correctly." It went on to charge the learned judge with political prejudice, .' , Mr Polson asked whether the Minister did not consider that the article constituted gross contempt of Court, and what steps he had taken or intended to take to deal with it.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 205, 15 September 1937, Page 8
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