TAKING OF NOTES
Dunedin Court Incident Dominion Special Service. DUNEDIN, August 12. During fie hearing of a ease in the Magistrates’ Court in which a woman was charged with being a member of a subversive organization, Sergeant M. Conway, who conducted the case for the prosecution, drew attention to the fact that a man at the back of the Court was taking notes. "What objection can the police have to a niau taking notes?” asked counsel for accused, Mr. O. J. L. White. "He is quite entitled to do so if he wants to.”
Sergeant Conway pointed out that according to Cress reports a magistrate in Christchurch some time ago laid it down that, only authorized persons were permitted to take notes of Court proceedings. Mr. White interrupted to t?uy that the Christchurch magistrate quickly changed his opinion on the subject. In reply to Sergeant Conway, the magistrate, Mr. Bundle, said that as long as they wore not creating a disturbance persons in Court could take notes of any case in which they were interested.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 6
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