MAYOR CALLED AS WITNESS
"BRUSH" WITH MAGISTRATE [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ■ CHEISTCHURCH, Friday. The Mayor, Dr. H. T. J. Thacker, who was a witness in a by-law case in which he had laid: an . information against a motorist, had to wait over two hours in Court before -being called. After 'giving evidence he ventured ; to ''- protest against a busy man being kept >| waiting in the circumstances, and in a '•: heated "brush" with . the magistrate was warned )i that he-; might be, committed' for contempt of Court. ■/-:-," ■■ .•■ :■-'•-.■• 1 ;'-.': : ■ !■'•:' \
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 8
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