THE NEW JUDGE.
WELCOMED IX COURT. (Dy Telegraph.—Press Association.) .WELLINGTON", this day. Sir John Salmond took his scat for the first time as a judge of the Supreme Court this morning, and was officially welcomed and congratulated by the Wellington Bar. The courtroom was filled by members of the Bar and the Magisterial Bench. Sir John Findlay, K.C., expressed, on behalf of the Wellington Law Society, indeed, the whole legal | profession o"f Now Zealand, pleasure at .Sir John Salmond's appointment. It had given double cause for congratulation, because the profession recognised that the Supreme Court Bench had for months, indeed years, been greatly overworked. They now had gratification in the appointment of one of our most eminent jurists.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 119, 19 May 1920, Page 5
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118THE NEW JUDGE. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 119, 19 May 1920, Page 5
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