ELSIE WALKER CASE
DEMAND TO RE-OPEN INQUEST. By Telegraph —Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 23. A large public meeting called bv the Society, for the Protection of Women and Children, was held in the Town Hall to-night, when the Elsie Walker case was discussed. The Chairman was Air C. J. Timks. He said that if anyone had come thinking that lie was going to hear any sensational disclosures, lie Was going .to be disappointed. It was not the time or place to bring forward fresh evidence. It would he a most improper thing to do, and it might seriously impede the cause of [justice.
Mr D. Donaldson, a past President of the Justices of the Peace Association, moved: “That this meeting strongly urge the Government to provide power, this session, for the reopening of the inquest.” He said that he was not there to criticise the police, and he paid a tribute to Superintendent Wohlmann. The trouble was that the Minister of Justice was sheltering behind the law. “We are not here to deal with the Elsie Walker case specifically” lie added, “but some of us are here because we believe that the last ha.s' not been, heard of that unfortunate case, and that the inquest should be re-opened. Miss Ellen Melville, on behalf of the National Council of Women, said that the Council believed that it was only right that every avenue should be explored before the case was allowed' to go jin to abeyance. Miss Jean Begg, General Secretary of the YiW.C.A., said that immeuiate action was heeded for the protection of the country’s young girls.
“I have not come here to condemn the Government, the or individuals,” said the Rev. Father Holbrook, the Vice-President of the Society, “but if I were to make an exception, I would say that the attitude of the Minister of Justice is an extraordinary one.”
Father Holbrook moved that the Government he urged that any provision for the re-opening of inquests he made retrospective to apply to the Elsie Walker case. Both resolutions were carried unanimously.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 3
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344ELSIE WALKER CASE Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 3
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