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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5306, 24 August 1888, Page 2

When the ITouso was in Committee of Supply on tho item Native Lands Courts, tlio Judges of those Courts came in for n good dertl of all-round censure for the dilatory manner in which they performed their work. The Hon. tho Native Minister, however, paid a high compliment to Mr Alexander Maekay, who, ho said, was one of the most competent Judges in the colony — a belter man could not bo obtained. Ho was now employed at Greytown, and had been for the last three mouths : but that gentleman had told him that it was impossible to hurry on the work, because the natives would delay mutters and prevaricate, so that it was vory difficult to get at the truth, and ho was afraid that it would take another three months yet to finish. Tho delay was occasioned by tho natives. Mr Seddnn said the only one he know was Mr Mackay, and a belter man it would be impossible to get. If this gentleman was only p.iid £f)00, and other Judges of the sort which hud been referred to received £500 also, then an injustice was demo to Mr Mackay. It would be better to get four like him ut £000 a year than to employ tho present six at .£IOO a year.