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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 6

“You have opened your conference this morning with prayer; you could not have done better,” said the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates to the delegates at the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federa. tion Conference in Wellington yesterday. The Supreme Court opened at Greymouth this morning. There were no criminal cases and a pair of white gloves was presented to Mr. Justice Blair, who favourably commented on the district’s long freedom from serious crime and the residents’ respect for the lawn—Press Association. “There is no such thing as a good case of this kind, and having the interests of the public in mind 1 must make bad cases the minimum,” said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., when convicting a motorist who was charged in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-ear. Counsel for the accused had suggested that the case was not a had one. “Every case of on intoxicated motorist tn charge of a car i bad. I look on them in the light of being cither bad, very bad, or extremely bad. Imprisonment is the only way to deal with the extremely bad cases,” sa'd Mr Mosley. Gold, states a London cable, is quoted at £6 10/7 an ounce.