LAW PRACTITIONERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 103, 29 October 1900, Page 6

LAW PRACTITIONERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

: 4 DEPUTATION TO TL^E MINISTER FOR JUSTICE Members of the Council of the New Zealand LaAV Society had an interview this morning with the Hon. Mr. M'Gowau, Minister for Justice, the purpose being to endeavour to obtain for New Zealand barristers and solicitor^ the same terms of admission, to the legal profession in the Orange River and Transvaal colonies as those extended to English, practitioners. Tho deputation consisted of Messrs. W. S. Reid' (Solicitor-General and President of the NeAV Zealand LaAV Society),, Theo Cooper, M. Chapman, W. li. Quick, T. W. Stringer, and G. Harper, and the request avus contained in the following resolutions, which had been passed by the C6uncll :— (1) The Committee of the Council of the New Zealand Law Society, incorporated, by the NeAV Zealand Law Society's Act and the Acts amending the same, de:/.red to submit to the Imperial Government thnt barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court of NeAV Zealand, on clue proof of their admission in NeAV Zeahmd and that they are still upon the roll in New Zealand', should bo admitted to practice in the Orange River Colony- and in the neAv ' colony to be established in the Transvaal upon the same terms and subject to the same conditions as barristers of the Inns of Court of England and Ireland and soHcitors of'-tho High Court of Judicature | in England Avill be admitted in the same colonies. (2) That great injustice Avill be ' done to practitioners from this colony if the rules established by the Cape Colony and Natal be applied, inasmuch as persons duly qualified and admitted in other colonies are required by those colouie.s to serve the same periods of articles and tuition and submit to the same conditions

prior to admission as youths .••(udy ing for liist admission (3) 'I hat n. copy oi the above resolutions be .scut to the Colonial Secretary ot New Zealand, with tho respectful' request ot the Council that ho avUI cause tlie name to be transmit led by hi">t outgoing mail to the Agent-Generai, Avilh instructions to lay them before the Imperial authorities and use bis endeavours to procure favourable consideration therefor. Mr. Reid said that it Avas a matter of Mime urgency, so that l\eAV Zealanders might have tine &ume advantages as others of practising in the lavo new colonies. Tho Minister replied that he avus in sympathy aviLli the Society in this matter, and he avouUl bring it before Cabinet at an early dale.