GOVERNMENT SERVANTS.
BAILIFF PUT OUT.
Per Press Association
NAPIER, May 13.
The question of whether a Government servant while employed in a. Government building is immune from the embarrassing attention of a bailiff armed with a judgment summons came np at court to-day. A debtor -was employed in the railway workshops, and the court bailiff who had tone to serve the summons on those premises had been put off br the manager of the works.
The Magistrate said he had considered it his duty to report, the matter to the Minister for Justice, as he was not going to have officials of the conrt treated with discourtesy. An impression prevails that Government servants cannot be served with writs while engaged at their business and the decision of the Minister on the pointshould prove of some value.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13594, 14 May 1908, Page 6
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136GOVERNMENT SERVANTS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13594, 14 May 1908, Page 6
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