“Time is not an element that must be considered' by life court; we muet dispose of the case completely.” This remark was made by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Police Court at Wellingtou. pn Friday, when counsel apologised for taking up what he thought might seem to be too much time with the defense. The magistrate made it clear that Hie court /wanted to sift all the facts. Time did hot matter as long as justice was done. . ' . • •' “I have had a lot of experience pf ffian-eatin'g lionet during the ’ past t|n years,” remarked Mr. Temple Perkins at the Wellington Rotary Club. Fiftyone of the natives in his district pf Uganda had been taken, he added, by one family of lions within three weeksIndeed, they had probably taken. 150 in all, because there was ,a lot. of;-naj-ives going through from the Congo gt the dime- He-and some of his officers ..hgd.gope 9u(;, after the lions, mid, p?d '■‘aoco’finied for'"all of them
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1930, Page 11
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