Independence of Magistrates.
Assurances by Mr Martin, [United Presa Association.] Wellington, This Day. Replying to a valedictory address, Mr Martin, S.M., yesterday, said that as to the independence of tha Bench, they had heard a great deal about the possibility of Government and political interference with the independence of magistrates. A greater number of people were affected by the lower Court than by the Supreme Court, and Mr Martiu said it might be some satisfaction to a vast number of people to know that so far as he was able to judge che Magistrates' Beuch was &b absolutely independent as the Supreme Court Bench. He had never, either directly or indirectly, been approached as to the conduct of business, nor had the least attempt been made to influence him.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 221, 18 September 1896, Page 3
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129Independence of Magistrates. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 221, 18 September 1896, Page 3
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