MORTGAGE REVIEW

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 168, 30 April 1935, Page 7

MORTGAGE REVIEW

PRESIDENT OF THE COURT.

MR JUSTICE JOHNSTON.

(Special to the " Guardian.")

WELLINGTON, April 29

The Acting-Prime Minister (the Flon E. A. Ransom) announces that the Court of Review fo- Rural Mortgages will be presided over by Mr Justice Johnston with Mr Ralph S. 'Chadwick, of Dannevirke, and Mr Alfred Coleman, of Stratford, as associate members. Mr Chadwick is chairman of directors of the Wakatu Freezing Company, Hawke's Bay. He has also been chairman of the Hawke's Bay Adjustment Commission since its inception. Mr Coleman, who is a solicitor, has been chairman of the Mortgage Adjustment Commission in Taranaki.

The fourth son of Sir Charles Johnston, who was a life member, and at the time of his' death Speaker, of the Legislative Council, Mr Justice Johnston was born in Wellington in 1875. He received his education at French Farm, Banks Peninsula, under Mr Thomas Southey Baker, who was a well-known Oxford Blue. Mr Johnston graduated B.A. in 1897 and was called to the English Bar in that year. He is a member of Lincoln's Inn. Later in the same year he was .admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. In 1928 he was president of the Wellington Law Society, . and for some years he represented Marlborough on the Council of the New Zealand Law Society. He is a member of the Colonial Appointments Board and also of the Advisory Committee to the T. G. Macarthy Board of Governors. As a Reform candidate, Mr Johnston unsuccessfully contested the Hutt seat at the by-election in December, 1929. He was appointed K.C. in 1930. Mr Johnston was married in 1900 to the eldest daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Bell, and has a. family of four. The eldest is a captain in the Durham Light Infantry. Mr Alfred Coleman is a prominent solicitor in North Taranaki, and for many years has been'a partner in the Stratford legal firm' of Rutherford, Macalister and Coleman. He has been actively identified with a number ot societies and organisations in the province. , . , Mr Ralph Searle Chadwick is a sheep farmer of Dannevirke, and is chairman of directors of the Hawke's Bay farmers' Meat Co, Ltd. He has served on a large number of Hawke's Bay public bodies.