COURT OF APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 6

COURT OF APPEAL

' ! SITTING IN AUCKLAND

AN OCCASION HONOURED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ■ 1 AUCKLAND, This Day. A building whose hall has witnessed many memorable scenes in its seventy years of history, the Supreme Court at Auckland, has never until today been used as a Court of Appeal. This morning a Bench comprising the Chief Justice (Sir M. Myers) Mr Justices Callan, Kennedy, Fair and Northcroft looked out over a large number of barristers, members of the Auckland Law Society, gathered to honour the occasion. The formal apparel of wig and gown made an impressive scene. Before the Court’s business proper was begun, Mr H. M. Rogerson, president of the Law Society, moved that it be recorded that the members of the profession attended to pay their respects. Sir M. Myers directed the order to be made accordingly. The case before the Court is a motion for a writ of mandamus in regard to the arrest in New South Wales of Karl Jacob Stegner, by Detective-S.er-geant C. E. Godwin, and in regard to Regner’s extradition to New South Wales. Regner is in Auckland at present. On July 8 a warrant for his arrest was produced before : Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., Auckland, and an application was made that the magistrate endorse a warrant under -Section 13 of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881. The magistrate refused to endorse the warrant on the ground that under a decission of the Full Court of New Zealand, Part 2 of the Act was not applicable to the case of a fugitive offender in New Zealand, whose return to New South Wales was requested. The Attorney-General, the Hon H. G. R. Mason, conducted the case for the Crown, assisted by Mr Evans-Scott, Wellington. Mr T. Henry, with him Mr F. McCarthy, Auckland, appeared for Regner.