WHY THIS HOSTILITY?
SPECIALS AS CONSTABLES. COMMENT BY JUDGE aiLATR. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. ■" I cannot understand this hostility to special constables," remarked Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day during tho hearing; of an appeal by Mervyn George Berry against a sentence of imprisonment for having been found in possession of an offensive weapon. The case arose out of the Cuba Street disturbance in May. A brother of the appellant, formerly of Auckland, said that when his brother picked up a stone he told him to put it down and not to be a fool. The Crown Prosecutor: Were you hostile to the special constables ? Witness: Yes. His Honor: I do not understand this hostility to special constables. What have they done that they should not do ? Witness: I cannot understand it, ri"=elf, sir. [.'is Honor: What is wrong with the special constables ? —There is nothing wrong with them. Counsel for the Appellant: No one seems to understand the hostility. Perhaps a psychologist could tell us.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 11
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