DELAYED SUMMONSES.
I !Y -I.AW A DMIX ISTRATIOX CRITICISED. “If this manner of administration of the borough by-laws is going to continue, we may just as well empower the inspector to allot the lines himself,’’ said Mr. A. M. Ongley in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court, when addressing the Bench in regard to a charge against his client of driving a motor-ear across an intersection at an excessive speed. Mr. Ongley deprecated the practice of sending a man a summons so lute as ten days after the alleged offence, giving no time or incident by which the occasion could he recalled. “The result is that my client is absolutely robbed of any chance of putting in a defence to this action. Possibly everybody in the town would be in the same position if this procedure were followed,’’ said counsel. “Unless this matter is brought before the Court it will never reach the proper authorities. ’ ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17008, 15 April 1926, Page 8
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154DELAYED SUMMONSES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17008, 15 April 1926, Page 8
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