MR. F. K. HUNT
AUCKLAND TRIBUTES
. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. ■ Enthusiastic tributes to the retiring Magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, were paid at a dinner on Saturday evening attended by over 130 members of the legal profession, medical officers,, &nd others associated with him in his work.
Mr. L. K. Munro, president of the Auckland Law Society, in proposing tht toast of the guest, said that except for three years when he was stationed at Wellington, Mr. Hunt, who came ori£<ially from Christchurch, had sat in the Magistrate's Court at Auckland since 1918 and had become a civic figure with a reputation in and beyond Auckland for directness of speech and vigorous common sense.
On rising to respond Mr. Hunt was given an ovation. '
A cordial welcome' was extended to Mr. Hunt's successor, Mi-. C. R. OrrWalker, formerly of Timaru.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 15
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