FEDERAL JUDGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12867, 27 May 1905, Page 7

FEDERAL JUDGES.

TIJiE' QUESTION OF EXPfENSES.

United Press Association.—B y Electric Telegraph.^— Copyright . Sydney, May, 2G. The Ghi< % f Justice made a further statement on the expenses sfcjjua?Vble, in which he said t-hat provision havingbeen made for the payment of travel-

ling- expenses, the Court would sit at Brisbane on the appointed dale. 110 .traversed some of the Attorney-^Jene-ral's allegations, among others that to the effect , that though the J udgfs held railway passes they endeavoured to put the Commonwealth to the additional expenditure of steamer fares. [He explained that sea travelling was chosen for inattei-s of economy, and

actually resulted in a considerable saving. He concluded by saying that in the case of private Jjonsions the . Judges had ample means of protecting themselves from attacks or interference in the discharge o£ their duties, tout in the case of the Executive Government their only protection lay in publicity. v"We did not," he said, "resort to these means until the position h/ecame intolerable."