LAW PRESIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 8

LAW PRESIDENT.

SIR A. GRAY'S DEATH. EMINENT BARRISTER. LONG LEGAL CAREER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Tho death occurred suddenly to-day of Sir Alexander Gray, K.C., president of the New Zealand Law Society. One of the most distinguished members of the New Zealand Bar, Sir Alexander Gray, was educated at Wellington College, and was articled to the lit. Hon. Sir Francis Bell (then Mr. F. H. D. Bell) at the start of his legal career. After being admitted to the Bar in 1881, he first practised at Greytown, and subsequently returned to Wellington, with the establishment of the legal firm of Campbell and Gray. Sir Alexander was president of the Wellington Law Society, and in 1920, on the elevation of the late Sir Charles Skerrett to the Chief Justiceship, he was appointed president of the New Zealand Law Society. Chairman on three occasions of the Legal Conference, Sir Alexander was also a member of tho Auckland Hospital Inquiry Commission, and had been counsel in a long list of prominent cases in Wellington for many years past. He was the youngest son of the late Mr. Williajn Gray, sen., one time secretary of the Post Office. Sir Alexander was knighted in the recent New Year honours. The Magistrate's Court adjourned for a quarter of an hour out of respect for the late Sir Alexander Gray. Mr. E. Page, Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt and Mr. T. B. McNeil were on the Bench. Mr. Page in moving the adjournment, referred to Sir Alexander as one of the most noted advocates of his day.