JURY SERVICE
QUESTION OF EXEMPTION. A claim foi' exemption from jury service on the unusual ground that he was over the age for jurymen was made by a man whose name was called when the jury was being empannelled in the Supreme Court in Wellington this week. He pointed out tfiat the maximum age for jurymen was sixty years, and said he was sixty-one years of age. Agreeing that a person over sixty years could not be compelled to serve, and that the application must be allowed, His Honour remarked that a mlan over sftcty years of age Was not compelled to speak up. In these days When there were sufficient men to be called it did not matter if such men claimed exemption, he said.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4429, 23 May 1941, Page 8
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126JURY SERVICE Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4429, 23 May 1941, Page 8
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