NO COLLISION CASES
CHIEF JUSTICE PLEASED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.' NEW PLYMOUTH, November 17. “This position is as unusual as it is satisfactory, and as satisfactory as it is unusual,” said the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court
to-day, commenting on the fact that this was the first session in his experience as a Judge in which he had not been faced with a case, civil or criminal arising out of a collision.
ft was tlie first time, he added, that he had had to hear the trial of a woman on a charge of any kind, which possibly spoke well for the womanhood of the Dominion. In this case there were two charge against a Maori woman, Margaret Kerehomn, of •murder and manslaughter respectively. The grand jury found a true, hill on the manslaughter charge only.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1930, Page 2
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