A COMPLAINT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4827, 11 September 1876, Page 2

A COMPLAINT.

' TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZKAIAKD TIMES. : Sib, —Being a new chum in this country, and quite ignorant of the rules which guide /Resident Magistrate's offices, and still more in the dark as regards the duties to be discharged towards the public by the clerk of the Resident Magistrate in this city, I will therefore be brief, and state a case. Suppose the clerk was to be suffering from measles, whooping cough, teething,' or a number of other complaints to which flesh is heir to ; and supposing the clerk to be so invalided for months, weeks, or days, and that during the period of his indisposition, and long before he intended to b« unwell, sums of money are daily paid in his office by order of the Resident Magistrate, to be reimbursed to those legally entitled to receive them—Under what law or rule is the public forced to abide the recovery of the clerk? It seema strange, even harsh towards those having money lying locked up hi theclerk's office, which often is more than earned by the hundred and one inconveniences one is made to suffer through a mixture of rudeness and incivility on the part of those connected with the Resident Magistrate's Court. Your aid I would gladly Beek, if I dared, to induce the new Attorney-General to order the officials in the Resident Magistrate to " shell" or " fork " out upon demand, instead of sticking unwarrantably longer to that which is not theirs.—l am, &c, Ignoramus.