JUSTICES’ CONFERENCE.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 13. “There is ranch sympathy for the criminal nowadays and none for his victim,” said Mr J. C. Willis, exsuperintendent of police, as a Dunedin delegate at the Justices of the Peace Conference, which rejected by 12 votes to 10 an Auckland remit that probation officers be appointed from justices in country districts so that persons required to report may not have to come in contact with the police. The conference decided to draw the attention of the Minister of Education to the necessity of redrafting legislation concerning child welfare, and affirmed that no old-age pensioner shall have his pension attached when such attachment means depriving him of food. An Otago remit that it be made an offence to publish the name of a defendant in a Court of Justice unless and until the defendant had been proved guilty was defeated.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 90, 14 March 1935, Page 2
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148JUSTICES’ CONFERENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 90, 14 March 1935, Page 2
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