DUAL ROLE
(From Our Own Reporter) NELSON, March 26. A Blenheim Justice of the Peace recently had cause to think on the diversity of functions he is called upon to perform.
He was about to officiate at a wedding when he and the bridegroom were beckoned from the room by a young man who had the “C. 1.8. look stamped over his large frame.
The two were informed that the groom was suspected of a crime, but that it was not of sufficient magnitude to prevent the uniting of the couple in holy wedlock. And so the Justice, adopting his wedding face, married the couple. He and the groom then retired to another room where he changed to his magisterial face, heard the charge formally presented against the young man and recalling the anxious bride in the next room, granted him bail so that the honeymoon could take place.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32566, 27 March 1971, Page 1
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