LETTER TO JUDGE.
" CONTEMPT OF COURT." CHIEF JUSTICE'S WARNING. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WANGANUI, Wednesday. Before the hearing of an undefended divorce petition in the Supreme Court this morning, in the case of Bird v. Bird, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said he had received a letter earlier in the morning from the respondent. "I have not read it," added his Honor, "and I don't, know what is in it.. It is signed by a man who must be very ignorant, but even so he ought to know better than to be guilty of the impropriety of writing to a • jucjgc upon a matter that is coming before the court at which that judge is presiding. I assume ho is an ignorant'man and not a man of means. I feel very much disposed to lino him for his conduct. It is contempt of court. However, I assume he is not a man of much means. One of theso day's some person who commits an impropriety of that sort will find himself very heavily fined or sent to prison for his contempt."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 10
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