APPEALS TO PRIVY COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 19127, 19 December 1925, Page 10

APPEALS TO PRIVY COUNCIL

THE SALAMAN AND FLOUR-MILLING ■ , CASES [Peh United Pkess Association.) WELLINGTON, December 17. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) and Mr Justice MacGregor, and Mr Justice Alpers sat this afternoon as the Appeal Court and granted provisional leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the Hamilton case, Hirawanui v. Gardener. Final leave to appeal to the _ Privy Council was granted in the King v. Distributors, Ltd., known as the flourmilling case. The Solicitor-General mentioned that an appeal had been lodged some time ago against the refusal of Mr Justice Alpers to issue a writ of certiorari to quash the conviction in the case Sajama nv. Chesson and Poynton. The appeal had not been proceeded with, and must lie deemed to be abandoned. The solicitors for Salaman wanted to go on with the matter, and ho desired the ruling of the court whether this could be done. Counsel for Salaman said that appellant did not previously have the money, hut had realised on some property and wanted the anpeal to be board. —The court held that the appeal could be heard in March if Salaman paid five guineas, the cost of the adjournment, within a week. (Abraham W alley Mahomed Salaman was a Hindu doctor carrying on business as a herbalist ip Auckland. The case and the matters arising out of it caused a great deal of interest there.)