New post for registrar
Mr T. A. F. Withers, Registrar of the Supreme Court in Christchurch, has been appointed Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington.
He was notified about the new appointment by the Assistant Secretary for Justice (Mr E. M. Comerford) yesterday. The telegram arrived at his office "out of the blue,” he said. The post was one of several he had applied for some time ago.
Mr Withers has not yet accepted the new post. He said last evening that he was waiting to see when he would be expected to take up the appointment.
“I can’t see them asking me to go until next year,” he said.
As a tennis coach. Mi Withers is well known in 1 Canterbury sporting circles. i Mr Withers came to 1 Christchurch in December, ! 1963, to take up the post of Deputy Registrar of the I Supreme Court. After a spell ] as Official Assignee he was i appointed Registrar of the : Magistrate’s Court, a position .
he held for about 10 years, and then he became Registrar of the Supreme Court last year. At present Mr Withers is busy organising polling places and other election-day details in his capacity as returning officer of the St Albans electorate.
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Press, 17 November 1978, Page 4
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