ACTION TO BE TAKEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 May 1941, Page 6

ACTION TO BE TAKEN

LETTERS TO SUPREME COURT JUDGES ;. COMMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE [United Press Association) Wellington, This Day. ; When the Supreme Court sat to-day die Chief Justice Sir Michael Myers addressed a statement to the Crown \ Prosecutor, Mr Weston K.C. in which ; be said he and others had been receiv- t i ing letters which had gone to the waste f paper basket as seemingly the product £ of a disordered mind, but the man had [ ! now commenced to write upon matters \ ; which were at the time and still are c f sub judice that couicl not be permitted. , One letter reflected upon the honesty of \ the administration of justice by the ( courts generally. “I am ordering the } letters to be handed to you so that proper inquiries may be made as to } the nental condition of the writer of i , the letters. If he is sane enough to be ( allowed to remain at large outside a s mental hospital he should be called J upon to show cause why he should not * be committed for contempt.” Sir Michael Myers said the man was not a person as far as he could see even } indirectly concerned with the matter J referred to. t