IN LIGHTER VEIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 14

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

"I can't for the life of me think why you asked me to speak to-night," said Archbishop Julius, who was the principal speaker at the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association on Fridav (reports the •'Press"). "I've never "been a Justice of the Peace, and I've never been before one, but more by luck than by management, I daresay." His Grace was in entertaining mood, and in the course of his address raised many a laugh. "We have a Judge here," he said, indicating Mr.-Justice Adams, "and he would have spoken a great deal more to the point than I—or we could have got an inmate from Paparua, who would have known a great deal more about it. The fewer laws—repressive laws—that we have, the better, at least I think so. I know I always do when I'm driving a motor-car," he said later, and spoke of the lack of consideration of man for man that existed in New Zealand, as compared with England. For instance, a motorist would see two cyclists stand ing talking in the middle "of the road, their machines at right angles, so that nothing on earth could pass. 'If it wasn't for fear of the Justices of the Peace," he confessed, "I'd have run them -town time after time, but I didn't dare."