RESIDENT MAGISTRATE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 25 July 1919, Page 8

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE

WANTED FOR HAWERA

The Mayor, speaking at a complimentary gathering to Senior Sergt. of Police this morning, said he thought they were all quite satisfied that the innovation of trying to run the business of this particular centre with a' magistrate visiting the town once or twice a week was quite inadequate and' quite unsatisfaetoiy. For Fifteen years the town had a resident magistrate; the town and district during these years Lad grown considerably, and the fact that the majority of the Supreme Court cases at New Plymouth—which perhaps was not anything to be proud of— pointed to the rapid strides *of the district. He hoped that the members of the legal profession would co-operate with him in banging pressure upon the Department in seeing that South Taranaki is again provided with a resident magistrate. '