MONEY NOT GOODS
WITHIN MEANING OF POLICE FORCE ACT.
Dominion Special Service.
Auckland, October 5
A ruling that the meaning of the word “goods” did not embrace money was given in a reserved decision of Mr. W. R. McKean, jS.M., in the Magistrate’s Court. The case was one in which David Helps applied under Section 32 of the Police Force Act for an order directing that a sum of money in the hands of the police should be paid to him. The Magistrate said the person on whom the money was found absconded after his arrest, and had therefore not been convicted. The section empowered a Magistrate to order the return of goods, but Mr. McKean said his view was that the meaning of the word “goods” did not embrace “money.” Therefore he had no jurisdiction to make the order.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 10, 6 October 1927, Page 3
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140MONEY NOT GOODS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 10, 6 October 1927, Page 3
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