SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
A simpie question put to.him at Auckland, as to whieth.eir he was in favour of increasing the emoluments of Sup-ieime Count Judges, caused t(he Attorney-Oeneral to go off into political hysterics. He actually suggested-, that corruption -liad been, ahaaiged in-,regard to the Judges. TQiat suqh a suggestion is aibsoiluteil,y umiwarranted, ,goes without sajd-ng. No mem-ber of tlue Opposition party has ever raised a of &us(picion against the judiciary. Wilwit tlie Op>positioh slays, and sayis emphatically, is tliat no Judge should be placed in tilile pasd'tdon that he sHilould be required to accept ernolumants from the' Ministry of thie day.- "Hhe Judges should be independent of Parliament, both as regards tenu.re of office- and pay.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 4
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117SUPREME COURT JUDGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 4
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