NOT A BANKER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 858, 16 August 1906, Page 20

NOT A BANKER.

An interesting point cropped up in the Waihi Magistrate’s Court last Friday. Counsel, in claiming expenses on behalf of a witness, argued that a bank manager in the ordinary acceptance of the term was a banker, and therefore was entitled to come under the heading of ‘‘banker” in the matter of the amount of expenses allowed. Mr. Bush contended that a banker was a person who owned and conducted a bank, and, as bankers only were mentioned in the Act, bank managers could not come under that heading. A bank manager, he argued, w r as not a banker. Counsel : Tr According to that, then, there are no bankers in New" Zealand, as all banking institutions are controlled by companies. If a bank manager is not a banker, what is he?”' Counsel went on: “Is position not that of a profession?” “No,” said Mr. Bush. “Then, is a bank manager an accountant?” It was agreed on all hands that he might be and might not be. However, neither counsel nor Mr. Bush committed himself on this point. The matter was finally solved by allowing expenses under the heading of “banker” on the lowest scale.