SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 121, 25 May 1938, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

NAPIER SESSIONS. [ Per Pie*s Association. 1 NAPIER, May 24. Damages amounting to £l5O were ' . ker in the i Supreme Court for injuries arising out of act lent. Plaintiff ! claimed 15i»o. > Three Maoris, Mason Thihema, | Somme Burton, and Henry Burton ! were found guilty of assaulting a taxi <ii vei and causing actual bodily harm. ;On anothei • Aarge of assaulting a | police officer in the exec ution of his i duty, tiie jury were unable to agree and the charge was withdrawn by the ' Crown Prosecutor. Prisoners were re- ; manded for sentence. : - - - =2=— Minister’s suggestion that the question of a tribunal should be very carefully considered before a decision was made, the whole of the dairy industry’ had asked for a tribunal and could not do other than press for its establishment. Another point made was that the compensatory price was a plank of the union’s platform, and no decision should be made which would preclude consideration of the scheme by the suggested tribunal. A lead should be given as to how *he compensatory price should he put into operation. The detailed working out of the guaranteed price had not been discussed with the dairy industry, and care should be taken to see that the principles underlying the comp nsai tory price scheme were generally understood and approved. It was decided that remits and suggestions bearing on the proposed tribunal he redrafted for submission to the conference later.