Court For Norfolk Is.
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, T HE establishment of a court for Nor folk Island, with full jurisdiction, was provided for in an ordinance gazetted at Canberra in August.
The Governor-General is empowered to appoint as judge, a barrister or solicitor of the High Court of Australia, or of a Supreme Court, where he has had not less than five years’ standing.
The Governor-General may also ap point any person to be a special magis trate, and to appoint justices of the peace.
Mrs. Duncan Irvine, wife of the manager of Gili Gili Plantation, Samarai, returned to Papua at the end of August.
She had been in Melbourne since last May, visiting her daughters.