NOVEL COURT SITTING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3455, 8 April 1920, Page 7

NOVEL COURT SITTING.

JUSTICE’ IN A BAKEHOUSE.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 5

} Police Court sittings are occasionially held in novel places, but one llwhich was held at Lyttelton on Thurslday will 'be hard to eqfial. The day ',being a very busy one in port. only one justice of the peace was available. .When the time to open the Court ar—-‘.l-ivéa there was only one case, a charge of petty theft, and as the police did not desire to keep the accused in custody over the holiday the whole Court proceeded to a bakehouse, where another justice of the peace was hard at work, making Easter buns. Here the Court was held in a corner of the bakehouse, ‘the Court orderly first proclaiming in :front of the confectionery shop that ‘ “The Magistratdgs Court is now open.”

The clerk, with his book on a sack of flour, read the charge, and the Bench, one member of which was in }the usual baker-’s dress, including ‘apron, retired a few paces to consider E the case. The cfeiision was soon aririved at, and the whole party filed out {into the street again, leaving the {baker} who had not been taken from Ibis work, for ifiare than three min~ ‘,utes, to carry on. '