THE

COMMONWEALTH LAW

REPORTS

CASES DETERMINED IN THE

HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.

Editor-ALFRED H. HAYBALL, B.A., LLB., Barrister-at-Law.

New South Wales

Dictoria

REPORTERS:

BENNET LANGTON, B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law.
NEIL MCTAGUE, LL.B., Barrister-at-Law.

BENNET LANGTON, B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law.

Melbourne:

Harston, Partridge & Co. Pty. Ltd., Printers,

455-457 Little Collins Street.

335035

JUSTICES OF THE HIGH COURT

OF AUSTRALIA

DURING THE CURRENCY OF THIS VOLUME.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ADRIAN KNOX, P.C., K.C.M.G., CHIEF JUSTICE.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ISAAC ALFRED ISAACS, P.C.

THE HONOURABLE HENRY BOURNES HIGGINS.

THE HONOURABLE FRANK GAVAN DUFFY.

THE HONOURABLE CHARLES POWERS.

THE HONOURABLE GEORGE EDWARD RICH.

THE HONOURABLE HAYDEN ERSKINE STARKE.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL:

THE HONOURABLE SIR LITTLETON ERNEST GROOM, K.C.M.G., M.P., K.C.