UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY
OBJECTION TO PRINCIPLE PROSECUTIONS AT WHANGAREI (By Telegraph—Press Association) WHANGAREI, This Day. Obiecting to the principle of tho unemployment levy three well-known settlers at Kaitaia district were before the Magistrate yesterday charged with failing to pay the levyl Robert Switzer and Edward Panther were fined £3 with 10s costs, and Francis Donaldson was fined £1 with 10s costs.
Panther, who had resigned his commission as a Justice of the Peace as a protest, asked the Magistrate to fix default in order that he might go to prison.
The Magistrate refused to assist him to make a martyr of himself, saying that defendants had gone as far as they could with their protest and should meet their legal obligation, however unpalatable,, If the fines were not paid distraint of property would follow. Donaldson paid the levy before the Court sat.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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141UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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