HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 3

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

SITTING AS JUSTICES. EVENT AT PUKEKOHB, CONGRATULATIONS FROM BAR. An occasion unique in the annals of New Zealand law, courts was the appearance on the Bench of the Pukckohe Court yesterday of husband and wife. When Mr. ¥. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins, J.P.'s, were seated in the Court, Mr. F. A. Hosking, on behalf of the members of the Bar, congratulated Mrs.- Perkins on being appointed a Commissioner of the Peace, and referred to the fact that it was the first time a justice and his wife had presided in the Pukekohe Court, and the first occasion on which a woman had been seen on the local Bench. The occurrence was not the first of its kind in New Zealand, a previous one having been recorded in Hawke's Bay. "Husband and wife are looked on as one, but in the eyes of the law they are two. It also shows the equal rights of women," Mr. Hosking added. Mrs. Perkins returned thanks. The justices had a particularly light task They convicted and fined three defendants 5/ and 10/ costs for driving motor vehicles without a driver's license.