SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 228, 25 March 1912, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

OVERWORKED JUDGES. _ j By Telegraph—Prejs Association. Masterton, Last Might. Commenting in the Supreme Court on Saturday on an article which had appeared in the Wairarapa Age of that morning, alleging that Supreme Court judges were overworked, Judge Edwards stated that while the article was -quite (fair lie did not wish it understood that he had been habitually overworked. He had worked long hours at Auckland and Hamilton of late, and for the first time in his experience lie had succeeded in thoroughly upsetting himself. He pointed out that owing to the absence of Judge Cooper in England, the court had worked short-handed during the last twelve months, but he hoped that on Judge Cooper's, return the work would be made easier. ! A LONG- ACCUMULATED CLAIM. Masterton, Last Night. The sitting of the Supreme Court concluded here on Saturday, when Judge Edwards non-suited plaintiff in the case in which a farm laborer named Evan I Jones claimed £551 arrears of wages from a Featherston farmer named John Bicknell, for work done over a period of nineteen years. His Honor did not i allow costs, as he expressed the opinion [that the case was one which should be 'dealt with by a jury. .