REBUKE TO COUNSEL
PUBLISHED EXPLANATION CHIEF JUSTICE'S COMMENT [I!Y TELEGKAI'U —OWN coiuiespondent] NAPIER, Sunday Tlio rebuke administered by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, to a VVliangarei solicitor, Mr. R. K. Trimmer, in the Supreme Court at Napier, and which subsequently was the subject of a Press Association messago from Whangnrei, was further referred to this morning by tho Chief Justice. In an interview Mr. Trimmer said: "When for the first time the facts of the matter were placed before His Honor he accepted his (Mr. Trimmer's) explanation." "My attention has been drawn to a Press Association message emanating from Whangarei," said the Chief Justice. "I think I ought to say the message was not referred to me before, it was published. If Mr. Trimmer had had any explanation which ho wished to make for any public purpose, I mean by that for the purpose of having his explanation published, it should have been mnde in open Court, and then it would have been published with any comments upon it that I would have thought fit to make. Mr. Trimmer is not present, and therefore I propose to say no more about it."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 10
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193REBUKE TO COUNSEL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 10
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