SUPREME COURT JUDGES
SALARIES CANNOT BE REDUCED, WELLINGTON. March 37The exemption of Supreme Court Judges from the salary cuts was mentioned in the House to-night during the speech of the Prime Minister. In reply to an interjection Mr Forbes said the Judges were outside the scope of the legislation.
Mr Armstrong: Are they as sacred as mortgages? Mr Harris: Is it, proposed to interfere with the salaries of the Judges? Mr Forbes: They are not within our jurisdiction. Mr Black : They are under the New Zealand Parliament Act. Mr Forbes said that under the constitution tlie Judges were beyond Parliamentary legislation. If the Government had power to interfere with their salaries the Judges would not he in the independent position they should he in for the administration of evenhanded justice. Mr Parry: The Government can increase their salaries. Mr Forbes: T don’t know that it can. T have not looked into that position.
Mr Harris: Are the Judges the only ones who will not he called upon to make sacrifices?
Mr Forbes replied that everybody that could he covered had been covered by the legislation before the House.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1931, Page 5
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