Magistrate Appears
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Defendant in Fiji
PEOPLE in Fiji who maintain in the Colony “anythim happen, and sometimes g have been citing as proof contention a civil action broiu the Crown against a magistral In this case the Commissioi Inland Revenue claimed £3 foo allegedly due and owing Morgan, a magistrate statioo Ba.
Evidence given during the li at the Suva Magistrate’s ; showed that a dispute betwa T . magistrate and the Commk had gone on for several mono revolved round the question w the deduction of residential tas: income tax should apply to ttt in which the income was mr the following year, in whichri nQcpqqpH The hearing was punctual occasional lively interludes If the Acting Crown Solicitor Lewis), who appeared for thri missioner, and the defendan conducted his own case.
Claiming that the actioi vexatious in law, the defends! that, in addition to being from Ba to Suva, he had If humiliation of being server writs by obviously amused! men. He had had to canco proceedings for three days g Government’s expense.
After a day of legal and t argument, the Crown S applied for an adjournment December 1 because of his del: for Lautoka next day on nortant case.
The defendant said that hi apply to have the case strucWc want of prosecution.