PRECEDENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 393, 30 November 1932, Page 4

PRECEDENT

COUNSEL ACCUSES TBifl AUTHORITY OF BEPji HIDEBOUND 1 Proceedings at the sittffifl No. 3 Transport Licensingfl yesterday morning touched 'M of a sifiall hreeze when £jl Hampson, appearing for Ltd., made some peinted jS| ahout the authority's adk® precedent. He had heen eg ing to illustrate that an atflj to .an application Was a n$ra tain the same end as the oraH ; plication, but the AuthoritjS ; see eye to eye with him.,® fore declared that in jo='l;l| client he must point olit ti its inceptioh, th'e Authority opted a hide-hound attitufi precedent. He quoted Frazer, of the appeal hoarauthority for this deelaw^ went ori to assure the Atitdefinite terms that if his ai for amendment were refusei immediately appeal. . Mr. E. L. Walton, chaitf Authority, expressed disp? the tone Mr. Hampson hso His remarks Were resenW they were continued in that1 Autthofity Would have h whether it would perm.it t pear hefore it. • As to enterffi .peal Mr. Hampson had a Pel! to do so if he desired. ( "Well, Sir," retorted Mr-' "I have only repeated ih 1# the words of Mr. Justice ^ The incident was then dffi at a later stage Mr. Hanip^ the opp'ortunity to say that' ed any objections raised, or? ations made hy him to the ; would he presented with t But when he had a duty '• and it was necessary to I?; tions in the interests of / | he worild m'bst certainlyj^'m