Vincent's Verve

NZ Truth, Issue 1173, 24 May 1928, Page 6

Vincent's Verve

ALTHOUGH, as Crown Prosecutor, /"I Vincent R. Meredith, of Auckland,

should ordinarily be on the job during the criminal sessions, there is not likely to toe, any howl of -wrathful indignation from Queen City residents because he is not on deck. Aucklanders are quite satisfied that anything: the community may lose through the Grown Prosecutor's absence from the'-. Supreme Court will be amply compensated for by what it will gain from his participation m the transport inquiry.

In his characteristic style, Yin. Meredith hammers away In a seemingly casual — and apparently disinterested — way, questioning witnesses before the transport commissioners, but never has he shown to greater advantage his amazing faculty for gathering a tremendous array of facts vand handling them with .consummate ease. Disconcertingly subtle m his line of cross-examination, the witness who has passed through his hands generally finds that — no matter how he answers— his reply will admirably suit the imperturbable Meredith.

The evasive witness is a thing of duty and a joyful interlude to "Viri.!