ATTACK ON HIGH COURT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17781, 17 May 1932, Page 9

ATTACK ON HIGH COURT

|g IttCISIONS IN N.S.W. DttORDER IN PARLIAMENT

SYDNEY, May (i. Trsi?ngocl uproar greeted a statement’ by the Attorney-General, Mr. Lamifto, in the Legislative Assembly to-day that the High Court, following its recent decision against the New South Wales Government, would be held in the utmost contempt by the

people of Australia. ' Cri|is- of “Shame” and “Withdraw” echoed throughout the House. In tie general disorder the Speaker * Mr. Burke, threatened to put the standing .orders into execution. i Mr, Henry asked the Minister if he i subscribed to the criticism of the High Cour{ that had been delivered by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, at Ryde, the previous day, in which ho said the rejection by the High Court of the appeal by the Government Of New South Wales against the Enforcement Act was a political decision iwhich would stand to the eternal shame'of the High Court. It was contemptible. Mr. Lamar,o replied that the saddest feature of the High Court decision • was not the temporary embarrassment that it might cause the Government of NeTv South Wales, but that the ) people, when they thoroughly understood the• decision, would hold the, judiciary of Australia. m the same position as it was now held by lawyers. That Was in contempt. He made that statement as a lawyer. j