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THE MIMISTER’S PROPOSAL •■ v - VIEWS OP CANTERBURY JUSTICES. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 12. ‘ The Canterbury justices of the peace at a meeting of the executive of the association to-night’discussed briefly dhe statement of the Minister of Justice (Mr J. G. Cobbe) at Christchurch that he was considering the possibility of making, more use of justices., All speakers to-night said that justices of the' peace had no idea that they should displace, magistrates. Their idea was rather that as a great deal of a magistrate’s time was now taken up with the hearing of cases which should ' not occupy their time at all—by-law cases and such—they felt that the services of justices might be used to lighten the burdens of magistrates.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21978, 13 June 1933, Page 9
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126WORK OF THE COURTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21978, 13 June 1933, Page 9
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