AN INQUIRY.
TO THE EDITOR, Sir. —Can you inform me the necessary step to be taken to get the clergy of the various Churches placed on Her Majesty’s Commission of the Peace. One Church is already ably represented, and I think, in fairness to all classes and creeds, the clergy of other denominations should at once be made Justices of the Peace. I would not wish to see them neglect their sacred calling, but they might contrive to sit on the Bench whenever the interests of any of their flock was at stake, and thus be able to watch over their temporal as well as their spiritual interest?.--I am, etc.
Inquirer, Geraldine, March 21,1884.
[Our correspondent means evidently to be very facetious. He had better represent the matter to His Excellency the Governor through tbe Minister of Justice. We see no objection to clergymen being vested with the Commission of the Peace, as their education generally qualifies them for the position.— The Editor. J
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1155, 22 March 1884, Page 2
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164AN INQUIRY. Temuka Leader, Issue 1155, 22 March 1884, Page 2
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