PAYMENTS TO WITNESSES.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15346, 9 April 1920, Page 4

PAYMENTS TO WITNESSES.

SCALE INCREASED

[Per United Press Association.]

Wellington, April 8. 1 In the "New Zealand Gazette" published to-day appear new regulations the signature of the Hon. J. G, i Coates increasing the scaie of payments ■to witnesses in- criminal cases. The amount is increased from 6s to 10s per day. Witnesses at coroners' inquests, are also to be- paid the same sum. The fee for a coroner or justice, other than \& stipendiary magistrate, holding an" inquest is raised &ora one guinea to two and. the mileage trom Is to Is, 6d. The fees were reduced many years '. ago during a time of retrenchment, and; ! are now restored to the maximum. : amount allowed by the Act. The Act,, it is understood, does not permit of vi--fees to'medical witnesses v.ithiout further legislation. The new s«ate id- payments takes effect from to-day.