JURORS’ FEES.
WELLINGTON, February 3. A supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of February 1 prescribing rates of fees and allowances under “The Payment of Jurors Act, 1919,” has just been issued. Common jurors attending any civil or criminal sitting, or any jurors attending a coroner’s inquest, are allowed for attendance for a period exceeding three hours on any one day 12s; for a period not exceeding three hours on any one day, 6s. Special jurors’ fees 'for every day’s at tendance or part of a day’s attendance (actually serving as such) are: For first day, £1: for each day thereafter, 12s. In addition to the fees prescribed, each juror shall receive a refund of his actual exjienses of locomotion in attending such sittings, this to include railway, coach, or steamer fares; and when there is no public conveyance jurors shall be allowed a mileage rate of 9d a mile one way, if residing beyond two miles from the town or city in which the court or inquest is held.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 53
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