Obituary Mr D. G. Morison
PA Wellington Mr David Gordon Bruce Morison, a former chief judge of the Maori Land Court, has died in Wellington at the age of 87. "He was the personification of the qualities that went to make a good chief judge,” the then secretary of the Maori Affairs Department, Mr J. K. Hunn, said when Mr Morison retired in 1961 after 15 years in the position. A year later Mr Morison was awarded the C.B.E. Bom at Wellington in 1894, he was educated at Wanganui Collegiate and studied law at Victoria University.
His studies were interrupted by the First World War, during which he earned the M.C. while overseas with the Wellington regiment in the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was admitted to the bar in 1920. In 1941 Mr Morison was elected president of the Wellington Law Society, but once more his career was interrupted by war. He again served in the Wellington regiment. Soon after World War n he became chief judge of the Maori Land Court. Mr Morison is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son.
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