NEW JUSTICES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 10

NEW JUSTICES

Thirty-three Appointments Gazetted COUNTRY NEEDS MET Thirty-three new hppointments to the Commission of the Peace are announced in the Gazette issued last evening.' There are two Wellington names in the list, those of Mr. A. E. Allison and Mr. H. H. Sterling. With the exception of these two appointments and one at Christchurch, all the appointees are resident in rural districts or townships. In an accompanying statement the Minister of Justice, Hon. J. G. Cobbe. explained that the present list was supplementary to that recently issued. The majority of the appointments had been rendered necessary by deaths or -e--movals of Justices of the Peace in country districts, in which in several instances there was no Justice of the Peace always available to sign documents requiring the signature of a justice. The Wellington and adjacent districts appointments are as under: — Alfred Ernest AUison, Goldies Brae, Wel-

lington. , . John Crabb Barclay, Okaiawa. Allen Forsyth, Mapua. Graham Hammond, Opunake. , Thomas Pole Hughson, jun.. Opunake. Herbert George Kerslake. Levin. Edwin John Flewellen King, Greenmea-

dows. _ . Raymond Wilfred Matthews, Waiorongo-

mai. Ramsay McDougall. Pirmoa. Frank Ernest Parker, Levin. William Paxton Salmond, Upper Mou-

Norma'n' Charles Campbell Shephsrd, Featherston. Herbert Harry Sterling, Wellington.