POLITICIANS FINED BY MOCK COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 8

POLITICIANS FINED BY MOCK COURT

The dying hours of the session of the Commercial Travellers' Mock Court, which sat in one of the committee rooms of Parliament Buildings to-day were decidedly lucrative. The presiding judges were Messrs. E. J. Fitzgibbon, E. P. Lee, M.P., and C. E. Stathara, M.P. Dr. Newman was the first "prisoner" apprehended, and various counts were levelled against him. One of them was that ho once knew something about a racehorse. He denied the soft impeachment, but admitted that he knew something about a draught horse. Thereupon he was indicted with having attempted to ship draught horses to Germany for food purposes. For his various "misdemeanours" he was penalised to the extent of £5 ss. Mr. W. Nosworthy, member for Asbburton, waa compelled to admit that he came from a dry area, but he denied that ho had been masquerading the previous evening as "Mary." The judge commented on the fact that Mr. Nosworthy waa the successor of a member who used to go to sleep in the House with his boobs on, and imposed fines which totted up to £5 ss. Among other well-known politicians who good-naturedly consented to appear before tho Court was Mr. F. Mander, who was substantially fined for using German hair brushes, and the court coffers received a very substantial benefit as tho result of the court's activities