MAORI LITIGANT’S TRUST
MR. QUARTLEY AND THE ANGELS.”
DIFFICULTY IN SUPREME COURT.
(By Wire —Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night.
Religious tenets held by certain Maori clients placed their solicitor, Mr. Quartley, in some difficulty in the Supreme Court tq-day whan Justice Smith suggested certain ’ legal course to pursue. Mr. Quartley responded that he could foresee difficulties as these people were Ratana-ites and did not want to go to law.. “They have told me,” he said, ‘ quite reverently that they putvtheir trust in this case in the hands of ‘Mr. Holmden, Mr. Quartley and the angels.’ ” “Of a mightier Judge,” suggested his Honour, who added that if that was their attitude they probably would not put an affidavit on paper. Mr. Quartley said they might b.e willing to do so. Hy secured an adjournment of the case for a week. • !
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 7
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