HABEAS CORPUS
APPLICATION FOR A WRIT By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, May 1. A further application on behalf of Madge Munro for the issue of a writ of Habeas Corpus, was heard by the Full Court to-day. Munro is one of the prisoners being held pending extradition to Sydney, the validity of which has been attacked, the point at issue being whether New South Wales comes within the definition of “part of His Majesty’s Dominions” in the Fugitive Offenders Act, the submission being that the Act. in providing for the rendition of prisoners in British possessions, clearly intended that the possessions should be indivisible units, and that since the constitution of the Australian States into the Commonwealth, New South Wales was no longer an indivisible unit, but had become part of the larger unit of the Commonwealth.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 6
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136HABEAS CORPUS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 6
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