JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1934, Page 7

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

QUARTERLY MEETING HELD. With an equal leaven of pleasure and business the quarterly meeting of the Taranaki Justices’ Association held at New Plymouth last night was most successful. The association president, Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., was in the chair, and there was a good attendance of members and their wives. Reporting on the annual conference at Auckland, Mr. J. T. Griffin, one of the association’s two delegates, stated that the Taranaki remits urging the provision of women police, the submission to branches for approval of the names of persons nominated as justices and the payment of sustenance to dependents of offenders sentenced to terms of imprisonment greater than three months had been carried. Though the association’s remit moved by him asking for an amendment of the marriage law to prevent the union of the unfit had been amended before approval, the principle had been upheld. Mr. W. L. Kennedy, the other delegate, also reviewed the business of the conference.

Mr. H. Trimble spoke on conference matters.

In seconding this motion of thanks to the delegates Mr. Woodward said the association was to be congratulated in bringing forth remits that had so much “meat” in them. In bringing up the remit regarding sterilisation the association had done a public service. The matter had provoked keen public interest. A programme was given by Messrs. Dunn, H. Gilmore Smith and J. Hill (elocutionary) and W. W. Thompson and W. P. Okey (songs). Mr. P. Fredric was the pianist.