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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8526, 5 November 1888, Page 4

Certain contemporaries have returned to the charge about an alleged maladministration of the Land Act in the case of a dispute between Mr Horace Baker, of, Napier, and Mr Miller, M.L.C. Nothing pew is put forward, however, the sole ground of complaint being that the accurate reading of the Land Act (contrary to the earlier view taken by the Land De partment —not by the Minister, be it observed) happened to be favourable to an influential Legislative Councillor. The only logical deduction from this curious complaint is that the ' Government ought to have broken the law because the Legislative Councillor happened to be in the right. Against such a theory we protest in the strongest manner. No man should be subjected to unjust and illegal treatment merely because he may happen to be rich and influential. A course of argument precisely similar to that employed in this case tnight be brought forward to justify the “ burgling" or “pickpocketting” of any bloated capitalist. But this would still be dishonest, and so would have been the desired warping of the law to the prejudice of Mr Miller, M.L.O.—or any other man.