GOVERNMENT HOUSE
CASE CONCLUDED IN COURT. (Received February 26, 9.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 26. Argument has ■ concluded, and judgment has been reserved in the Government House case. Counsel for the citizens’ committee argued that as the Governor was an Imperial officer and the representative of the King, the Crown set apart land for his residence. Such residence came within the category of Imperial property, with which a colonial Government had no right to interfere. It was vested in the King in his regal capacity, and was not the nation’s property. As to the argument that the court was not constituted for reviewing the policy of the Government, Ministers must not forget that they are not a law unto themselves, and the sooner they understand that they must not act unlawfully the better.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8365, 27 February 1913, Page 8
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