OTAKI RIVER
PROTECTIVE WORKS
(Per Press Association.) OTAKI, this day. Settlers and others interested in the Otaki River protective works have been advised that the Public .Works Department cannot undertake protective work unless £2500 is available. The Government is not prepared to go beyond a £ for £ subsidy, leaving the settlers to provide £12.-)0. At a meeting held last night it was resolved to place the matter before the member for the district.
facts were not elicited the court could have lent'itself unwittingly to a wrong construction. The matter could not be left where it was, and would need investigation. The Attorney-General, the Hon. 11. G. R. Mason, suggested that malpractice was not necessarily involved. It would probably be found that there had been an unfortunate series of mistakes, producing a tragic result.
•Mr. Schramm suggested that it was far more than an unfortunate mistake. There were ample safeguards under the law, and if the officers of the Crown did their duty, these mistakes would not happen. The petitioner was away from the hospital wh»n tho citation was served on her. When she informed the medical superintendent, the Solicitor-General was appointed to deal with the case, a fee being paid to the solicitor to watch the petitioner's interests in the divorce proceedings. The report was adopted,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 5
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215OTAKI RIVER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 5
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