SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

[Per Press Association.] Auckland, September 16

A meeting of the legal professioi was attended by 117 members, who dis cussed the cases recently decided ii the Supreme Court. The position wai described as amounting to a crisis. A resolution was carried expressing the opinion that certain matters in con nection with the administration c justice in the" Supreme Court was no satisfactory either to those pleadin; i at the bar or to the litigants. f The resolution was signed by 86 pit I'sento, and will be referred to the Coun , i oil of Law Society, and will prob-, | ably be forwarded to the Attorney General in connection with the petiI tion to the Mayor on the same sub j ject asking him to convene a publu , meeting. Mr Parr states that he is taking j another day or two to consider before I making any announcement.

NEW PLYMOUTH SESSIONS

New Plymouth, September.l6

The Supreme Court was opened this morning by Judge Edwards, who con gratulated the district on its usua freedom from serious crime.

Norman Hoskin, a lad who pleaded guilty to forging and uttering an edu cation "certificate to the Railway Department, was ordered to pay the costf and come up for sentence when called upon. Albert Edward Stewart pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, and was admitted to probation for twelve months, and ordered to pay tl,ie costs. Albert Johnson, convicted on two charges of theft from hotels, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor, and was declared an habitual criminal.