PAYMENT TO JURORS
AN INCREASE GRANTED. By Telegraph —Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 20. “It is realised that the amount paid to jurors is too small, and it is being adjusted to 13s 4d a day,” said the Attorney-General, the Hon H. G. R. Mason, at the conference of the New Zealand Law Society, Mr Mason was speaking in the discussion which followed the reading of a paper on the jury system by Mr A. H. Johnstone, K.C., Auckland. “The “labourer is worthy of his hire," Mr Johnstone said. "It is a distinct hardship to a working man that he should be inadequately paid for services which he gives to his country. At present a juror's pay is 10s 6d a day, from which the employment charge is deducted. It should be increased to make it equal to his average daily earnings.”
In announcing that the rate was to be adjusted, Mr Mason said it would still leave room for an element of service. The new rate would not be full remuneration.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 6
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171PAYMENT TO JURORS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 6
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