JURY SERVICE
SIRM. MYER’S COMMENTS
When eight men who had been called for jury service were applying for exemption in Wellington, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, remarked that jury service might have to become an essential, service, and the first of essential services. He said he had drawn attention months ago to the difficulties of obtaining jurors, and these difficulties, had been, increasing at each session. It he was presiding.at the next sitting, a different course of exemption would have to be adopted. To a man who successfully applied for exemption on the ground tnqt he was the proprietor of a. one-man .business, His Honour said' thgt up to the present proprietors of,one-man businessess had been exempted, not so much because of the, inconvenience to themselves, as because., of the inconvenience to the public,but Buck, exemptions could not go on.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 2
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141JURY SERVICE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 2
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