MEIKLE AT HOME.
STILL DISSATISFIED. 1 London, April 18. John James Meikle, who was awarded ■ £2500 compensation in New Zealand for " wrongful conviction and imprisonment on a charge of sheep stealing, has just arrived in London. It will be remembered that the motion to award Mr. Meikle compensation named the amount «s £SOOO when it was introduced in the New Zealand Parliament, but thij - amount Mas eventually reduced by half. "Now," said Mr. Meikle this week, "I have come to London in this year of the Imperial Conference to try to get the Ilonie authorities to take up my case and secure me the other £2500' compensation which it was originally in-' tended I should have. I mean to lecture' before the British people upon the in- ; justice I have suffered."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 24 May 1911, Page 4
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131MEIKLE AT HOME. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 24 May 1911, Page 4
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