UNPAID LEVY
PROTESTORS FINED. ■lit, Telegraph — l'er Press Association) WOT A, «0' FE T . June 20. Objecting to the' principle of the uii- . mploynunt levy, three well known setters of Kaitaia district were before the 01. yesterday, charged with failing to pay the levy. Robert Switzer and Edwind Panther were litf'd £3 with ten shillings costs an brands Donaldson was fined £1 and ten shillings costs. Panther, who had resigned his commission as a Justice of the Peace as a protest, asked the magistrate to fix default in orrW that he mjc'it go to »n don. -Magistrate refused to assist him to make a martyr of himself saving that def< intent had •one as far as he could w-th lus protest <nd should inert the 1 gal obl’gaton, however unpalatable. T 1 the fines were oot paid distraint of property would follow. Donaldson paid the levy before the Court sat.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1931, Page 8
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150UNPAID LEVY Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1931, Page 8
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