"WE WANT THE LAW FREE."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 4

"WE WANT THE LAW FREE."

4 — ; (DI TKLEGEAPH.—SMSCIAI. COIIRKSroNDSNT.) Auckland, September 4. The usual monotony of tho Magistrate's Court was broken yesterday morning by a lady who was defending a civil action. Mr. Kettle, S.M., who \vas ! on the Bench, expressed reluctance to go on with the caso unless defendant obtained tho services of a solicitor to represent her, whereupon the lady raised an eyeglass to her. eye and sup. veyed the opposing counsel and'tho magistrate. To the latter sho protested that sho could not afford to pay a lawyer. ' "So," sho continued, r 'l call upon you for justice; that is if you aro capable of eivins,it to me without having some other judge up on there beside you. Wo hn.vo got tho franchise, and we want tho law free." Mr. Kettle paid ho thought lie could manage single-handed to give tho lady the justice she claimed, and tho case proceeded.

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