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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3192, 11 April 1911, Page 5

In conversation with an ‘Otago Daily Times” (reporter the other clay, Mr J. A. Hanan, M.P., remarked that it was well known to lawyers and others that the consolidated statutes presented a good many defects and omissions. It was to he readily admitted that those who were responsible for the consolidation of the statutes had performed a very heavy _ task, and it might perhaps be urged m extenuation that the hurry of the thing was responsible for the anomalies existing. It was expedient that some ' steps should t be taken to rectify these omissions during the next session of Parliament. Iheic was verv flight prospect of there being an extensive legislative programme during the session, and as the work that would be involved in revising the consolidated statutes would not present anything in the way of contentious legislation, but would simply mean the rectifying of fairlv patent defects, a committee might- be set up from Upper and Lower Houses to deal with the whole of the consolidated statutes in one session. In the meantime, wjr Hanan suggested, it would be < advisable to obtain the advice and assistance of +he judges and law societies oi the Dominion on the subject.