LEGAL PROFESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 3

LEGAL PROFESSION

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE

In this month's issue of the "New Zealand Law Journal" there is a Christmas message to legal practitioners from the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, who refers particularly to the special work the profession has been performing latterly in the public interest. The Attorney-General first thanks the members of the profession who served in a judicial capacity upon, the commissions under the Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act. Their sacrifice, so readily made as a contribution to the general welfare, he says, has been of major importance in enabling the country" to bring to an end a most difficult aspect of the economic depression. Next reference is made to the worK: the profession had been performing in the public interest in the field of law reform. Also the past year has been noteworthy, the message continues, in that it has seen the completion at Blenheim of the first of a series of Supreme Courts that it is hoped to reconstruct according to modern standards. It is I hoped tha as .each year goes by another will be added to the list until none is left for which apology need i-be made. The Attorney-General concludes his i message by stating that it is a. happy circumstance for him to be a member iof the legal profession and to wish all his fellow-practitioners a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New 'Year.