SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

ITS EARLY HISTORY. Tho history of the Supreme Court in Auckland was investigated by the Auckland Historical Society on Saturday afternoon, when a visit was paid to the building and also the new Law Library. Members and guests were welcomed by the Rev. A. B. Charpell, and during the visit of inspection Mr. R. McVeagh and Mr. N. H. Good explained to those present the changes that had taken place. The first Supreme Court sessions were held in a building at the corner of Victoria and Queen Streets, and there, too, was the prison. The foundation stone of the present building in Waterloo Quadrant was laid on November 0, 1805. Mr. McVeagh explained to those present the heads and gargoyles on the pillars of the building, which he said represented people who were famous at the time the building was erected. The head 011 the extreme right was Sir John Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England; and then coming to the left were Richard Betliell, Lord Westbury, Lord Chancellor of England, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII., and Princess Alexandra.