OUR MAGISTRATES
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE ALLEGED. [Fee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 31.. Some strong comments wore passed on our judicial system as relating to magistrates by Mr H. \V. Northcroft, S.M., this afternoon, when a presentation was made to him on his retirement from the magisterial bench. “ Our magistrates aro not independent," said Mr Northcroft. “ Ttyey arc subject too much to political interference." He went on to say that this constituted a grave danger to the fairness and impartiality with which a magistrate- ought to carry out his work. Magistrates had industrial and other disputes brought before them outside their usual judicial work, and constant endeavors were made from influential sources to bring them under' the whip. In concluding, Mr Northcroft said it was tho duty of citizens in the young Dominion, while there was yet time, to move in the matter of making magistrates as independent as Supreme Court Judges.
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Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 1
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151OUR MAGISTRATES Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 1
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