CHATHAM ISLANDS
Witnesses Not Able To Get
To Christchurch
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 11
A position unique in the history ol Hie Supreme I'oiirt in New Zealand nrose today when I lie Crown Pi'iisecuM;.. 'r. Donnelly, diselosed to liis Holloin'. Mr. Justice Nortlierott, Hi.-il Hii'oiigh tlie exigencies of war it \?as impossible Io present witnesses in :i ease in which a resident ot iheduitliam Islands was charged with indecent assault on a male and attempted indeeeiH assnull.
Mr. Donnelly explained that there was no ship to bring witnesses from the islands and it might be a month before a vessel became available. .His Honour instructed the Grand Jury that it was open to it to consider the depositions ou the assumption that they had been taken correctly but if it desired to examine the witnesses then the bill could be adjourned until they arrived. Discharge of the Grand Jury would be delayed till the jury dealt with the indictment at the adjourned inquiry
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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164CHATHAM ISLANDS Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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