RELIEVING MAGISTRATE APPOINTED

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 8

RELIEVING MAGISTRATE APPOINTED

MR. E. D. MOSLEY.

The Minister of Justice (Hon. T. M. Wilford) has appointed Mr. Edward .D. Mosley, barrister and solicitor, of Chrietchurch, to, be one of the two relievingl Stipendiary Magistrates whom Cabinet recently authorised him.to appoint. Mr. Mosley will ako be appointed Warden, and will probably commence his relieving duties at the Thames.

Mr. Mosley joined the Justice Department as a cadet in 1893. He was then transferred to Dunedin, and served there, and afterwards at Christchurch. He was admitted a« a solicitor in 1899, having qualified in 1897. He had charge of the Police Court at Dunedin ujider Mn Cai-ew and Mr. Graham. In 1902 he was Clerk of the Magistrate's and Warden'o Courts at Cromwell, during the dredging boom,' and also held the positions of mining registrar and receiver of gold revenue. In 1904, at Westport, b.e was Clerk of the District, Magistrate's, and Warden's Courts, receiver, of gold and land revenue, and mining registrar. In 1907 he retired from the Government service, and entered' into practice as a banister—hie firm'being known as Smithson and Moeley—and has had considerable practice in the Supreme Court and the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch for the last ten or eleven years. Hi/3 experience of Courts and practice during the last twenty-five ycare has been one of the widest.