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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 2

When called to give evidence during the hearing of a civil case in the Supreme Court at Auckland, a young city business man unhesitatingly walked into the prisoners’ dock, facing the Judge, reports the “Herald." The witness, who was apparently unfamiliar with Court procedure, was slow to realise his error, and did not vacate the dock in favour of the witness-box until he was peremptorily called upon to do so by the Court orderly.

The Electrolytic Zinc Co., whose works at Risdon, near Hobart (Tasmania), are the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, is negotiating with the Government for the extension of hydro-electric power for the company’s operations on the West Coast. The resulting scheme would mean an expenditure of at least £1,500,000 on the provision of a further power station, and erection of power lines to the West Coast.

The constitutional position of the present New Zealand Parliament in extending its life for a year was defined by Mr A. C. Brassington in an address to the Public Service Administration Society in Christchurch last week. Mr Brassington cited views of authorities concerning an English precedent for a similar action, and maintained that the New Zealand Parliament had been quite within its legal rights in doing what it had done.