AN ALLEGATION REFUTED.
CLOSING OF COURT DOORS EXPLAINED. By Telegr»ph.—Pres» AasocUtlon, Wellington, Dec. Ib. Concerning the complaint made in Auckland recently that certain proceedings in the Supreme Court had beea heard while the court-room doors were locked, with the object of preventing newspaper reporters being present, the Minister of Justice stated yesterday that he had completed an investigation into the allegations made. "It seems," said__Mr. Lee, "that the door for the admittance of counsel and litigants was on this occasion locked during the hearing, not intentionally for, it had remained InadveHently bo from, a preceding sitting of the Court. It escaped the notice of th» official in charge. The other two doors were, however, open, giving free access during the sitting. The reporters could have gained admission by the public entrance and fulfilled their functions if they had attended at the time the ewe was heard. ,
"As to the allegation of the Court orderly being ecnt out and the key turned in the lock, that is emphatically denied by the Court's officers." The Minister added that the sitting had been fixed in open Court three days, earlier.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1920, Page 5
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187AN ALLEGATION REFUTED. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1920, Page 5
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