JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1929, Page 8

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

MAKING APPOINTMENTS

WELLINGTON, September 13.

The adopted in the appointment of Justices of the Peace were explained to the House of Representatives to-day by the Minister for Justice Mr Wilford). The I Minister said he ma'de it a practice to appoint three. Justices in every electorate, the names being submitted to the respective Member of Parliament for approval. If someone was appointed who was open to severe criticism., he expected the member to defend the appointment. A Reform member: Have you any objection to women being appointed ? “None whatever,” replied,” the Minister, who added that he himself had appointed several women. There were fiOOO Justices of the Peace in New Zealand to-day. The task of compiling the list was a long and tedious one; in fact, it had taken four months after the names, had been sent in to get the last list out. The acceptance of the appointee was necessary in every case and the trouble had been that some had failed to answer. When a local authority or a private individual recommended the appointment of anybody the Member of Parliament for the district was consulted. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Coates) pointed out that inconvenience had been caused in some districts where the death of a Justice had occurred and the vacancy had not been filled until the next batch of appointments was made. The Minister: Where a death occurs another Justice can be appointed, before the next list is ready. Mr J. Bitchener, Reform member for Waitaki, said that a Justice was required at Kurow where a public works camp had been established. At present the residents were put to great inconvenience. The Minister: I will give you one. Mr Bitchener thanked the Minister for his prompt action.

the lonely worker at a handicraft. The mere company of their fellows is a pleasure to most boys and girls, to most men and women; and community lightens toil. Combination and organisation produce many means of enjoyment impossible without them. Even if the work itself should starve the desire for play and for self-expression, the corporate life of the factory give s oppo r “ tunities for both denied to the solitary worker. There will always be independent spirits, with a touch of the artist in them, who can find happiness only in the old and quiet ways of work; but it is mere sentimentality which would see in them the only workers who are living as men should live,