A SCENE IN COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 24, 29 July 1919, Page 8

A SCENE IN COURT

(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

HAMILTON. This Day. There was a scene in the Magistrate's Court. Mr. Gillies was asking a client certain questions, when the Magistrate (Mr. Burton) said he could not allow leading questions. Mr. Gillies put the questions in another way, but the Magistrate still held that the evidence was inadmissible. Mr. Gillies said: "Very well; I will leave the Court." Hurriedly ho left, his client following him. The Magistrate said he did not care to give judgment in the absence of the parties, and adjourned..-,the case. Upon resuming, Mr. Gillies did not appear. . The Magistrate adjourned the Court for hali-an-honr, and summoned Mr. Gillies to appear. Upon resuming again Mr. Gillies was still absent. The Magistrate then adjourned the case until 19th August, on which date Mr. Gillies has been summoned to appear.

A proposal by the New Zealand Picture Supplies' Association was ma-dc to Wanganui Borough Council last week to lease tho Municipal Opera, House at a. rental of £14 per week, or in tho.alternative to put the lea.se, for a period of five years, up to tender. The council unanimously decided to reject the offer. During the debate on the proposal it was suggested that the council should run pictures at the Opera House, one councillor expressing, himself as being suro that the council could make £20 a week for the municipality. Other councillors suggested that the council should either build an up-to-date theatre, or else improve ths presont. building so as to attract mote travelling companies.