DISTRICT COURTS.
PROTEST FROM WESTLAND. By Telegraph Press Association. Ilokitika, Last Night. The Westland Law Society passed a series of resolutions protesting ajains't the proposed abolition of District Courts on (he grounds of there being onlv two sidings of the Supreme Court in tlie vear and no resident Judge. Tliov hold iliaf ihe District Courts were indispensable owing to (In. (luarlerlv sit tines, especially wlicn dealing with hankiupley cases and milling appeals', also as a convenience lo I lie general public and the legal practitioners, as it sits at five different towns quarterly. Moreover, plenary powers conferred upon I lie clerks of the District Court were held to be a ereat, .benefit. It was finally resolved lo protest strongly against,'flic abolition of District Courts by proclamation wilhout referring tfie important question to Parliament. Society was also to lie considered. The proposed abolition wn.; not only unconstitutional but also illegal.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 92, 14 May 1909, Page 2
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149DISTRICT COURTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 92, 14 May 1909, Page 2
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