THE KNYVETT CASE.
Concerning the Knyvett episode, the Otago Daily Times remarks : “The conclusion remains unavoidable, that the enquiry was a travesty upon judicial methods, and that it was suggestive more of the procedure that was recently witnessed in France in the Steinhiel trial (where the presiding judge was hardly distinguisable from the prosecutor) than of British practice. To express dissatisfaction at the turn this episode has taken is in no way to express approval of Knyvett’s action in writing as he did. The treatment accorded this officer, can bear no other interpretation, however, than that the military authorities ol New Zealand would virtually deprive a volunteer officer altogether of a right of complaint. Under the circumstances, they need not be surprised if the issue of this unfortunate affair excites considerable indignation in volunteer circles as involving a gross miscarriage of justice.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 708, 13 January 1910, Page 3
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142THE KNYVETT CASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 708, 13 January 1910, Page 3
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