MR SAUL SOLOMON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12825, 8 June 1907, Page 10

MR SAUL SOLOMON.

Mr Saul Solomon is a native of Victoria, having been born in Melbourne in May, 1857. Ho came to New Zealand with his parent* shortly afterwards, nnd has been a resident of thiis city ever since. Mr Solomon's career is *nn apt illustration of the benefits to be obtained from New Zealand's __\Mn»roiis educational system. Cora , '•'■leucine his studies at a State school. ■ he p.i*»ed in 18f>9 to the High Scbooi. ! by the aid cf a Provincial Government I scholarship, became dux of that school mi 1871, nnd thence passed by a colonial scholarship to tho Otntro University, oi which institution he and the late Peter •_aton Hay (Kngineer-in-Chief of the Publio Works Department) were the i li st grndnatcs. From tlie University j Mr Solomon went to tho law offiors -ii Messrs Sievwrisht and Stout in 1877. and remained with that firm until be | commenced practice in 1884. when bt > went into businu&i far himsolf. As a ! cross-examiner, ho is facile prineepa.

At present he is an examiner in law for tlie New Zealand University. Of the ten appointees, three belonged to the Otago Boys' High School, viz., Messrs Bell, SoJomon and Baume— another proof of the efficiency of that institution.