Reference to mistakes that had sometimes been made in appointing justices of the peace was made by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., while addressing the conference of the Federation of New Zealand Justices’ Association at Auckland. Justices who were unfit for the duties of their ollice had provided a fund of cheap wit for many years, he said. There was the example of a justice who duly witnessed and forwarded a document that he himself had signed, while a classic case was that of a justice who .gravely ruled that a cow was not an animal within the meaning of the Act.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4315, 17 March 1934, Page 2
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