WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 8

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

MR W. W. SAMSON APPOINTS®* REGISTRAR. ~f - _____ j, Mr William Welters Samson, regpk trar and sheriff of tho Omstdrereh Supremo Court, has been promoted to the position of registrar ami sberif tf tho Wellington Supremo Court gistrar of the Court of Appeal, in (hfe* of Mr AValter Arnold Cooper,* tired from that office on Saturday. 1 j Samson, who becamo a barristerial^. solicitor in 1902 and who was as such to the Supreme Court ot KilU Zealand by his Honour the lite Jtrs Justice Denniston in 1908, Sfclife 1 ** had a brilliant carter. gratulations oil his latest appointment i wore showered upon him jtbtertiay frr many members of the Bar and acquaintances. " (ffiIn February, 1898, Sir r engaged as a cadet in the *, Supreme Court office, where he ecf till 1902. Ho was then to the Supreme Court office in ton, and later made *. of that Court. On June was appointed deputy-registrar, ; sheriff, and Cleric.of Awards in Wjs m city. Tht-n again in Juno, 1911, Christehurch for Wellington tntr and sheriff and registrar -of "'ujpfe Court of Appeal for 12 lAilKX'j during tho abscnco of Mr A. Cooper, who was at that iima *"i leave in Europe. After ha yeaiV^GgpK'"" l in the capital city, Mr Samson rettnwft.' ". to Christehurch, and remained tho end of 1913, when he agaii^ ■ to Wellington to occupy the deputy-registrar of patents, trad© marks and copyrights. , ■ tho end of 1918 he was made Official Assignee in Wellington; was transferred to Duneuin . 'V Assignee there. In 1920 he to the office of registrar and_ iatei? the 3>unodin Sunieme Court u»* of Mr R. B. Ward, who ia ww Utfjapj Under-Secretary of Justice, <nA-l» mained in Dunedin till April Irt, JffijKllfif when ho became registrar ,&jid i of the Christehurch Supremo