FIJI'S CHIEF JUSTICE.
COMING FROM PALESTINE.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SUVA, February 17,
It is announced that Mr. Owen Cecil Kirkpatrick Corrie, M.C., has been appointed Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific, vice Sir Maxwell Anderson, retired.
Mr. Corrie was on active service in France, Belgium and Palestine, and was awarded tlic Military. Cross and mentioned in dispatches. After holding various legal appointments, mostly m Palestine, lie was appointed Senior British Judge of the Supreme Court of Palestine in 1924, and lias acted as Chief Justice on, various occasions si^ce.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 46, 24 February 1936, Page 8
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