FARMER WILLING TO GO TO GAOL.
OBJECTS TO LEVY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. Per Press Association. WHANGAREI, June 20. Objecting to the principle of the unemployment levy three well-known settlers of the Kaitaia district appeared before a Magistrate yesterday charged with failing to pay the levy. Robert Switzer and Edward Panther were fined £3 with ten shillings costs, and Francis Donaldson was fined £1 and ten shillings costs. Panther, who had resigned his commission as a J.P. as a protest, asked the Magistrate to fix default in order that he might go to prison. The Magistrate refused to assist him to make a martyr of himself, saying that defendants had gone as far as they could with their protest, and should meet their legal obligation, however unpalatable. If the fines were not paid distraint on their property would follow.
Donaldson paid the levy before th# court sat.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1931, Page 9
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