IMPORTANCE OF JUSTICE.
ESSENTIAL TO DEMOCRACY.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday,
"Democracy is our system. It is what we have evolved to suit ourselves, and the administration of justice is important and essential to democracy," said the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, in acknowledging references to the importance of his Work at a civic reception at New Plymouth on Saturday during his first official visit to Taranaki.
"It may not be important in Fascist countries," said Mr. Mason, "but it is to a democracy." In the state of the world to-day it was important that it should be realised that, with so many ideologies, so much questioning and so much fear, justice wae the firm foundation on which the British system of government was based, added the Minister. He was not sayiny a word of blame about other nations which had not been able to do the job as well as the British or had evolved on different lines. That was their rn'efortune.
Justice was an essential feature of the system under which Britons used their faculties and ability to the host advantage for the development of liberty and self-expression.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 14
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