TEETOTAL J.’sP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1053, 12 May 1910, Page 22

TEETOTAL J.’sP.

LORD LIEUTENANT SAYS THEY ARE WORSE THAN PUBLICANS ON THE BENCH. Some importance evidence was given before the Royal Commission on the Selection of Justices of the Peace by Lord Dartmouth, Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire. He gave the following opinions on the appointment of persons of particular views or callings: — “Publicans. —I don’t see why anybody should not sit on the bench, provided he is a good man.

“Clergymen.—l object to having them on the bench, and have only recommended one.

“Teetotalers.—Worse than publichouse keepers.

“Passive Resisters. —I would object because it would not contribute to the dignity of the bench to have people on it who had appeared as defendants.

“Women.—l should consider them not the most suitable candidates.” Lord Halsbury said his objection to clergymen as J.’sP. was that they had other business to do; to pawnbrokers, that questions of pledges would have to be settled, which would disqualify them from sitting on the bench; and to women only because they would not be qualified to adjudicate in certain cases.—London “Daily Mirror.”