DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 5 July 1944, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

WORKERS’ PHYSICAL TRAINING.

P.A. WELLINGTON, J'uly 4. A programme for taking more players from the sidelines in the interest of mental and physical wellbeing of workers in industry, by means of more facilities for recreation of social and educational as well as specialised physical training, by selected personnel, has been submitted to the Federation, of Labour by the Wellington Trades Council. The Federation is asked to take the matter up with the National Executive of the Labour Party, so that the matter may be placed before the Government. The report submitted is of a comprehensive and detailed nature. CHIEF JUSTICE'S CRITICISM. P.A. WELLINGTON, July 4. “It makes one indignant to see power like this taken,” said Chief Justice Myers, in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday, commenting on the clauses of the Finance Act (No. 3) 1943, which give the Treasury, the Controller and the Au-ditor-General the right to inspect and examine the books of persons having contact with the Government. “A law draughtsman, or the AuditorGeneral, drafts a clause of an inquisitorial nature which, on your construction, gives the Auditor-Gen,-eral or the Controller the right to go into any firm and demand it to produce its books,” His Honour proceeded. “You won’t get me, or any Court, to interpret these powers so widely. It is the duty of the Court to protect that freedom which we prate about so much, and for which the United Nations are fighting. A limitation could quite easily be stated by the law draughtsman."