AMERICAN LIKES J.P.'S
Some of the more observant of the Americans in our midst may take back to their own country new ideas resulting from their stay in this Dominion, states the "Auckland Star." One said to an Aucklander: "The New Zealand system of appointing justices of the peace is an example of a great British way of doing things. Our method in America is not so good as yours, and the country will never be what it ought to be while it has elected justices. When we go back home, America may realise that all her courts of justice must be as free irom bias as it is possible to be. That state of affairs can never exist while sections of the community, by popular vote, can appoint the Judges of the land." The New Zealand method, he believed,,led to spiritual contemplation and self-possession, so needful for the) judicial mind.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 4
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