Correspondence
LAWYERS AND M.H.R.'S. I
TO THB EDITOR OF THE STAR. Silt, — I am not going to inflict upon your readers, nor ocoupy the requisite space in your journal, for an exhaustive criticism ot my friend Mr Wilks's letter, published in last evening's Star ; but I must take exception to his wholesale denunciation of lawyers as members ofthe House of Representatives. It is my firm I opinion tbat a sprinkling of honest disinterested and painstaking lawyers is a most desirable and necessary element hi the House— their requisite training especially fits them for checking and preventing the numerous mistakes and blunders in phraseology and otherwise, which so constantly appear on our Statute Book, and occasion so many amendments. It is not, I believe, correct, as Mr Wilks states, that tbe Bills are drafted by the law officers of the Government, but even if it were se, it would be the greater reason why their work should be overlooked and checked by independent lawyers. Lest it should he suspected that I, being a lawyer myself, am actuated by personal motives in writing this letter, I think mv advanced age would be a sufficient reason for exonerating me from any such suspicion. I am, etc, | Saml. Goodbehere, [ A lawyer of 57 years' standing. Feilding, November 14th.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 117, 15 November 1893, Page 2
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