EXTRADITION CASE.
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. FURTHER APPLICATION MADE. _j (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) • WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A further application on behalf of Madge EMunro for tlift Issue of a writ of habeas corpus is being heat’d by the Full Court to-day. Munro is one of two prisoners being held pending extradition to Sydney, the validity of ■which has been attacked. The point at issue is whether New
South Wales comes within the'definition of “ part of Ills Majesty’s Dominions ” in the Fugitive Offenders’ Act, the submission toeing 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, hut had become part of a larger unit, the Commonwealth.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19565, 2 May 1935, Page 12
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138EXTRADITION CASE. Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19565, 2 May 1935, Page 12
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