ACCUMULATED COURT WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17631, 18 November 1920, Page 6

ACCUMULATED COURT WORK.

POSITION AT MORRINSVILLE

[BT T2EEGBAFH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT] MORRINSVILLE. Wednesday. Eighteen defended civil cases axe fcc® -down for hearing at the Magistrate's Court at Morrinsville this week. One solicitor has 15 cases, and he estimates that each case will take at least a 'lay and a-half to hear. Only one day and &■ > half of the . magistrate's time has been allotted to Morrinsville this month. Ths solicitors have written to the magistrate. Mr. W. G. K. Kenrick, asking him to forward a letter to the department point- | ,ng out that one day a month is entirely | inadequate for a magistrate to attend to I the_ work in the Morrinsville district, an J | asking that the time be increased to at i least two days, and that a special hitting j be permitted to enable the magistrate to j deal with the large amount of work that j has accumulated during the past six i months. Complaint was also made regardj ing the inordinate delay that occurs in j the serving of summonses and a requ«t j was made for the appointment of a. civil- | ian clerk and as bailiff at Momnsvilie. | For several years the people of Morrißf- | viile have been pressing the department i for a new courthouse, the present building ! being little better than a ched and entirely j unsuitable and inadequate for the work. j Last year a vol® appeared on the Estimj ates for additions, but so far no improve- ! ments have been carried out.