WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 8 September 1911, Page 4

WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY.

At the opening of the criminal sessions at Hamilton on Monday last, in his address to the Grand Jury, His Honor Mr Justice Edwards took occasion to deal in no measured terms with what ho characterised a waste of public money. Ho referred to a charge against two persons of having committed an indecent act in a pnlike place at Rotorua, and said the case should have been tried there and dealt with summarily.; the Magistrate should have insisted on dealing with the matter, though the police were anxious to have it sent to the Supreme Court. The only suggestion was that the policeman was desirous of having a holiday, and came to Auckland with that intention. It was monstrous, the Judge continued, that public money of an already heavilytaxed community should be unnecessarily spent in this way. When the case came before the Auckland Grand Jury, they emphasised the necessity of exercising more economy in these directions by failing to find a true bill, and the accused were discharged.