MAN'S STRANGE ACTION
PROHIBITION SOUGHT WOMAN AS DEFENDANT " IRRESPONSIBLE COMPLAINT " [from our own correspondent! HAMILTON, Monday Unusual circumstances attended an application hoard before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court to-day, when a single man asked that a prohibition order should be issued against a young woman, who was not a relative of his. The complainant made a long statement from the witness box in which ho said the young woman had been indulging excessively in liquor. When counsel for the young woman rose to question the complainant, the magistrate said "Do not start him oil again." Another witness also gave evidence. Without calling on tho defence, the magistrate said he had no evidence whatever to justify him in making the order asked for. The witnesses who had given evidence were not reputable, and in his opinion the complainant was not normal. Mr. Paterson said he was not sure that something should not be done to confine liiin in a mental hospital. The application was dismissed, and complainant was ordered to pay £3 -is solicitor's fee The magistrate remarked that he did not want the complainant coming to the Court making irresponsible complaints against people.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 12
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198MAN'S STRANGE ACTION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 12
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