CROWN WITNESSES
INCREASED PAYMENT NEW SCALE ANNOUNCED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday Provision for amending the scale of expenses paid to witnesses appearing for the Crown in criminal cases is contained in regulations published with the Gazette. The object is to make more liberal the scale of payments and to place them on a more equitable basis. Provision is made for the payment to witnesses of compensation for loss of wages through attendance at Court. The maximum payment in this respect is 13s 4d a day. The amount payable to witnesses in respect of travelling expenses has also been increased. Under the old rate a witness wno was called upon to be absent from home at night received 11s 6d, but under the new scale the allowance will be 15s for a full day of 24 hours.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 9
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137CROWN WITNESSES Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 9
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