NO JURISDICTION.
A NAPIER INCIDENT, '.'"'■' NAPIER, Dec 5. At the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday last. a Napier Chinaman named Yen Kee was fined £25 for selling oranges at 6d each. At the Court this morning, the Magistrate (Mr. R. W. Dyer) brought up the case again, jvnd stated that he had been perusing the Act, and had come to the conclusion that there was nothing in the Act giving him jurisdictien to deal with such cases. Senior-Sergeant Eales agreed that the Act was very vague anu misleading. Mr. Gleeson,. who appeared for the defendant, pointed out that if the case went to the Supreme Court the only thing he could do was to enter a plea of guilty. \ The Magistrate then struck out the case for want of jurisdiction.
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Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1918, Page 5
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129NO JURISDICTION. Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1918, Page 5
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