ACTION AGAINST THE MINISTER FOR NATIVE AFFAIRS AT FIJI
The Gazette tepqtte thefollowing esse, which was heard before the Supreme Court at Fiji, on the-9th and 10th Decemberßutters and othee*,' ▼, Swanston: The defendant was sued in his privet® capacity for having caused a number of Uie Ixjyoni who had been placed ju tho service of Mr. Sagar as plantation laborers Vy the Government, on condition of certain payments for such services, to be removed from the plantation shortly after Mr. Sagar’s death. Damages were laid at £5,000. The verdict of the jury was, in effect, that a contract has been made by the King and Ministers (the Government of that day), whereby the people in question were hired for five years to Mr. Sagar (then Minister for Native Affairs) ; that such contract included all—men, women, and children—except infants in arms; that defendant had ordered the removal of these people; that he had done this as Minister ) and that -his action had been subsequently approved by the Government, although there was no'evidence of any Minister but Mr. Swanston having been cognizant, at the time, of such intended removal - Damages were assessed at
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 February 1873, Page 2
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191ACTION AGAINST THE MINISTER FOR NATIVE AFFAIRS AT FIJI Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 February 1873, Page 2
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