DISTRICT COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 87, 8 May 1909, Page 2

DISTRICT COURTS.

Til El II ABOLITION. B.v Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. The Attorney-General (Dr. Findlny), speaking to a I'ont reporter on the subject of the abolition of District Courts, said the only objections to the course taken by the Government came from the West Coast. In the place of the .Uistriqt Ciourts, Hie Government intended to arrange for sittings of the Supreme Court at Westport, Greymouth and IfokitiSta as often ai work required. He had no doubt that when the people of the West Coast realin-id what improved facilities were substituted for the present system they would cordially endorse the action of tlip Government. The Minister lidded that apart from (he bankruptcy work, which was almost entirely formal, the District Court work on the West Coast during 1!)07 consisted of six civil and six criminal cases; during 11)118 the civil cases numbered twelve, and criminal three, which necessitated a special journey by a District Court Judge to that district four times' a year, besides which Ihe Supreme Court judge holds a sitting of th,, Court twice a year. The Magistrate's Court sits regularly and frequently.