THE OKATO CASE.
To the Editor. Sir,—Allow ma to endorse Mr. Hawkins' comments on the Okato caseLegal decisions of this Hnd only serve to discredit the law, as they do not truly interpret the intention of the Legislature, which undoulbtedly means its laws are to be administered with com* monsense and with a full and understanding estimate of the relative value of the various factors which go to prompt and control human thought and action. The Chief Justice made some strong comments on (Maoris and liquor, and, had he known of the ease and facility with which youths in their teens obtain liquor along the coast, he would certainly have had cause for further pointed remarks. Legal decisions of the Okato brand can neither act as effective lessons to offenders nor stimnlatives to the police in their endeavor to suppress a crying evil—-I am, etc., GEO. GIBSON. Raiotu, June 12.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1918, Page 3
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150THE OKATO CASE. Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1918, Page 3
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