PRESSING REQUIREMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 468, 25 May 1912, Page 4

PRESSING REQUIREMENTS.

We have frequently referred in these columns to the necessity of having a coroner appointed to the district, and the matter has on more than one occasion been brought before the notice of the authorities. Nearly every occasion upon which an inqueßt is necessary in the district provides room for complaint concerning the elementary provision made for carryI ing out tho law pertaining to cases of | sudden death. In the old days when | the King Country was a wild, and j practically uninhabited district, there was good reason why its courts should be held and its coroner established at Te Awamutu. The development of recent years, however, which has led to a reversal of the position has failed to make any improvement in the matter of the location of a coroner. Te Kuiti has outgrown Te Awamutu in progress, and already carrieß a considerably greater population, while the back country served by the King Country centre is infinitely greater than that of Te Awamutu. It is high time in the interests of the district that attention was paid by the authorities to such a reasonable request as the appointment of a coroner, and we trust no time will be lost in renewing the agitation. Combined with the necessity of a coroner iB the pressing necessity for a morgue. In the interests of common decency such a want should not be allowed to exist and it iB to be hoped proper step will be taken immediately to fill such a pressing requirementq.