ANOTHER JUDGE
DECISION OF CABINET;-'.'.; :; " ':'.: | The Minister of Jtutice (the Hon. C~ J. Parr) announced in the House of Representatives yeisterday afternoon that, it - has been decided to appoint another • Judge to the Supreme Court IBench. ; "'' :. The Minister stated that ..last year. /. tho Chief/Justice was approached ■with a view of getting the opinion of the Judges as to whether they "wets 6ver'-J\:;, worked. " , .. . . . The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. T. M. Wilford): "He .works from daylight:.--til' dark." ■ - ' ./' ' ,\ Mr.Parr added that at that time, -J as far as he remembered, there.was-no—-. necessity for a further Judge. -.' How- ."'''- ' ever, very strong representations. were,_;_;^ made recently to Sir Francis Bell and ■ himself from all over New Zealand, aJnd"—"matter was again reviewed. Asa. .;. result he was able to say that Calbiaet" ."' had decided that the time had arrived"-■----when it was considered that'to expedite-"' the work another Judge shdald b's'a^-r ' ■■ pointed..
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 13
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146ANOTHER JUDGE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 13
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