The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1907. Feilding's Court-Shed.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 291, 14 June 1907, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1907. Feilding's Court-Shed.

If the Minister of Justice had been present at the sitting of the S.M. Court at Feilding on Wednesday, even his adamant nature would have been moved to do something to remedy what is nothing less than a public scandal. The building was packed to the doors, and there was not room for those whose business took them there, let alone the general public, while a number of lady witnesses had to stand out in the rain until they were wanted. We cannot understand Mr McGowan's reluctance to remedy the evil, because he has recognised long ago the necessity for better accommodation, and we can only come to the conclusion that he is not taking tho steps decency should compel him to, because he is too tired! If Feilding's case is an instance of what the colony pays the Minister of Justice £1200 a year for, we can only come to the conclusion that the taxpayers are obtaining very little value for their money. To ask respectable people to spend a day in a dog-kennel, like the Feilding Courthouse, is an outrage on human nature, and nothing we can say is too strong to express our honest opinion of the existing condition of things.