DEBT COLLECTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 16 March 1915, Page 7

DEBT COLLECTION.

CRIMINAL LAW PUT IN MOTION

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. HAMILTON, March 16. el consider this ji case where criminal law has been put in motion to collect a civil debt," was the comment of SeniorSergeant Cassells at the S.M. Court today. He referred to a case in which the police had received instructions from Dunedin to arrest and have remanded to Dunedin, a previous resident of the .southern city on a charge of selling a cash register, which he represented to be his. The arrestee appeared at Court to-day, when a local member of the legal profession said, he had been instructed by the Dunedm firm of solicitors who began the criminal proceedings, to withdraw the charge. His Worship said he did not think there was any doubt that the criminal side of the law" had been used vas a. lever to enforce payment. Sergeant Cassells. remarked that it Vas simply making the Court and the police debt collectors. "Your Worship, it is like enforcing payment at the point of the bayonet." Withdrawal of the charge was permitted.