NEW KINGS COUNSEL

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 53, 26 November 1929, Page 12

NEW KINGS COUNSEL

TO BE SWORN IN THIS MORNING APPOINTMENTS IN NEW ZEALAND The Hon. T. M. Wilford will be called to the Bar as a King’s Counsel at 10.30 a.m. to-day in the Supreme Court The Chief Justice (Hon. M. Myers) will preside, the ceremony taking place in open court. Mr. Wilford is the twenty-first K.C. to be appointed in New Zealand, the first such appointment being made in 1907, when the following received the distinction:—Hon. Sir John George Findlay (Wellington), Mr. Martin Chapman* (Wellington), Hon. Joseph Augustus Tole (Auckland), Hon. Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell (Wellington), Mr. John Henry Hosking* (Dunedin), Mr. Saul Solomon (Dunedin), Mr Thomas Walter Stringer* (Christchurch), Mr. (later Sir) Charles Perrin Skerrett*, who was later Chief Justice of New Zealand (Wellington). The next appointments were made in November, 1912, and were :— Mr. John William Salmond (Wellington), Mr. Frederick Earl (Auckland), Mr. Alexander Gray (Wellington), Mr. Charles Bruce Morison (Wellington), Mr. John Ranken Reed* (Auckland), Mr. Frederick Wilding (Christchurch), and Mr. Samuel George Raymond (Christchurch) were appointed in July, 1913. The next appointment was that of Mr. William Cunningham MacGregor* (Dunedin), in August, 1915. In December, 1919, the Hon. Oliver Samuel, M.L.C. (New Plymouth), was appointed. The next appointment was that of the present Chief Justice (Hon. Michael Myers), in October, 1922. February, 1925, saw the appointment of Mr. Henry Hubert Ostler* (Auckland.

The most recent appointment was that of the- present Solicitor-General, Mr. Arthur Fair, in June, 1925. Those whose names are marked with an asterisk were subsequently elevated to the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.