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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 6

“A great deal has been said in public, and probably a great deal more in private, about the orgy of laws and regulations, State, departmental, and municipal, that have been inflicted on the community during the last two or three decades,” said Mr J. H. Luxford. S.M.. in an address at Wellington. “The average man resigns himself to such mercy as the courts of justice will extend to him, he must be caught In the meshes of the multitude of legal nets for ever being cast at him. Of course he tries to dodge them, and he has the assistance of an ancient and honourable profession to help him for a consideration—in becoming more expert In the art. Quite frankly m y sympathies go out to the layman, who is barred from pleading ignorance of the law. especially as I know that there is not a lawyer in practice who has not learned for the first time when he is instructed to defend the delinauent that penalties have been prescribed for certain acts or omissions. I might say, also, that a magistrate is sometimes in the same position when called upon to sit in judgment.” I