Supreme Court Fireworks In New Guinea
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New Guinea
npiTERE have been fireworks in the * Rabaul Supreme Court in connection with the trial of G. M. C. Ffrost, charged with wilfully killing a native. Mr.
Ollerenshaw, defending, charged Judge Phillips with “interference and interrup tion,” and “sympathy with native wit nesses,” and “protecting him (a native witness alleged to be lying) from cross examining counsel.”
Such statements naturally were re sented by the judge. The trial is unfin ished, so comment at this stage would bo improper.
It may be pointed out, however, that the incident shows how New Guinea’s inadequate and obsolete judicial system reacts undesirably upon the court itself, as well as upon persons undergoing trial.