THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
"COUNTED OUT" BY RETURNED SOLDIERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A large meeting of returned soldiers to-night unanimously passed a stronglyworded resolution expressing surprise at the remarks attributed to the Chief Justice in Wellington regarding soidiers' rum rations. Those present "counted out" the Chief Justice with evident relish.
Following is the observation complained of:—
"Unfortunately this man is a drunkard," remarked the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), when sentencing a prisoner at the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday morning. "I don't know, however, whether he is to be blamed for that if our army authorities have been in the habit of giving a rum ration to our soldiers and thus turning them to drink/ It might be the case, added Sir Robert, of the old proverb about the chickens coming home to roost, and that the country was now having returned to it some soldiers who had acquired the habit to the injury of themselves and to the community.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1919, Page 5
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163THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1919, Page 5
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