McARTHUR CASE
EXTRADITION RESISTED FURTHER LEGAL ARGUMENT MELBOURNE, Feb. 27 Further argument was heard yesterday by the Full Court of the High Court on J. W. S. McArthur's application for special leave to appeal against the New South Wales Supreme Court's ruling to dismiss his application for a writ of prohibition against an order for his extradition to New Zealand to face charges in connection with tho failure of the Investment Executive Trust and allied concerns. The New South Wales Crown Solicitor, Mr. Monahan, K.C., argued that for the purposes of the New Zealand Fugitive Offenders Act all Australian States remained "British Possessions." "The Commonwealth," as used In the proclamation of the 1925 Order-in-Council,' was merely a geographical expression to save naming the States individually. The question of lack of jurisdiction therefore did not arise. The applicant had left New Zealand and had gone to live in New South Wales and could therefore be dealt with by any magistrate in the Commonwealth whose jurisdiction extended to New South Wales. The Court reserved judgment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22355, 28 February 1936, Page 12
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