JURY OF MAORIS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 11 February 1939, Page 5

JURY OF MAORIS

APPLICATION .MADE AT GISBORNE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association GfISBORNE, February 10. Application has be< n i ado t< the .ir n; -b.’ Supr< me <. ourt at Gisborne to have a irv of Mauris empanelled during the session at the end of this month. The applicai «>n has been mad, on behalf oi Joe I >OU rl - was recently committed tor trial at the Gisborne se-sion <’t th« Supreme Court. The last occasion in Gisborne on which there wen Native race on a jury was three years ago, and then only three w« re empanelled. It is u infer stood that there may be a full list of 12 Maori jurors hearing tin present case. The section dealing with the question is 144 of the Juries Act. which is committed tor trial in any Court for an offence against a Maori, aci used may give notice to the committing magistrate or' justice at the time of commitment, or to the registrar or clerk of the Court of trial, at any time not less than seven days before the trial, that lie claims to In* tried bv a Maori jurv. . nd in such case b. shall be tried bv such