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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 31 May 1911, Page 5

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The, Wairarapi “Daily Times” remarksA cor rosjlontlent suggests that our comments' on the outcome of L:p; M |P'6cQgc!mgs before the Court of ApijehL by which was quashed the executed upon the pApnn.fiiiLthe Hon. T. Kennedy Aiac('o'Fmklrg wery unnecessarily severe • aiid “thpt, wo have impugned the integrity His Majesty’s Judges. In our in ie£ -re fee mice to the case wo hardly 'front* the length of suggesting anything dishonourable against the Court. In fact, oven had we wished, wo (hired not have gone that length, because a newspaper. Ilka an individual, may make itself liable to punishment for contempt of Court. What d'd pay vra r - that the decision of* the Court would not ho received by 100 people of this country with any marked approval, and was, owing to the special circumstances of this case, i i again r!y un for£u not c. Although criminal proceedings have not yet been instituted against'the lion. Mr. Macdonald, the Court of Appeal has practically found him guilty of the misappropriation of trust money; and everyone knows, that most men in that position 5-.ro liable to heavy punishment. The fact that Macdonald, a prominent business and public man, and ;i member of the Legislature, wim succeeded in having’ the earlier stages of the ease against him kept, secret, has now escaped the punishment imposed on • him as a result of his failure to account for trust moneys, will l:-o construed 'in only one way. The Judges, without doubt, were actuated by motives entirely honourable; yet, in view of the circuit, - stances, their finding is an unfortunate one.