TRIBUTES PAID

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 15

TRIBUTES PAID

LATE MR. E. D. MOSLEY

GATHERING IN COURT

Before the hearing of cases commenced in the Magistrate's Court today tributes were paid by the Bench and the legal profession to the character and ability of the late Mr. E. D. Mosley, formerly senior Magistrate at Wellington. ) When the Court was opened the senior Magistrate (Mr. J. L. Stout), took his place on the bench, and associated with him were Messrs. J. H. Luxford, W. F. Stiiwell^ and A. M. Goulding, S.M.S. Members of the legal profession filled the body of the Court. . ' "Before the business of the Court proceeds," said Mr. Stout, "my colleagues and I feel we should make some fitting reference to the death "of our former Magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, who has left behind him the memory of an honourable career of public service. The late Mr. Mosley presided for some years, before his retirement in tragic circumstances, as senior. Magistrate in this Court, and it does not need any words from me to remind you of his sterling qualities and human sympathies." It seemed fitting, said Mr. Stout, that the Court should mark its respect for the late Mr. Mosley and its sympathy with his relatives in their bereavement. IMPARTIALITY AND PATIENCE. "The members of the Wellington district of our society ask your leave to join in what you have said from the Bench," said Mr. P. B. Cooke, K.C., president of the Wellington District Law Society. "Mr. Mosley was the senior Stipendiary Magistrate here from April, 1935, until June, 1938. As soon as he came to sit in this Court it was apparent to those who practised before him that he possessed those qualities of impartiality and patience so vital in the administration of justice; and short as was the period that he presided here, it took us a much shorter period still to realise that we had the privilege of appearing before a man who possessed a patient, sympathetic, and discriminating mind. His kind and encouraging word has meant much to the young practitioner. His helpful suggestions to those who were without legal aid has meant much to them, and his continued and evident desire to do what was fair as between man and man has meant much to all who came in contact with him in this court. "His ability as a lawyer and his humanity as a man enabled him worthily to discharge the duties of his high office, and it is a melancholy reflection to us that one whom we hay learned to respect and trust, and that he who has showed us in no uncertain way that beyond any question he was our friend, is no longer with 4us. We respectfully ask his relatives to accept our sincere sympathy in their bereavement." The Court then adjourned for a short period. Among those present in the body of the court were Messrs. B. L. Dallard (Under-Secretary for Justice), H. F. O'Leary, K.C. (president of the New Zealand Law Society), A. E. Reynolds (Clerk of Court), C. A. L. Treadweß, A R. Cooper, H. McCormick, J. S. Hanna, W. G. Mellish, T. J. McCarthy, A Macandrew, W. P. Shorland, T. P. Cleary, W. Kemp, R. R. Scott, W. P.I Rollings, R. E. Pope, T. A. Tarrant, J. Isaacs, Brigadier Green (Salvation Army), Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey, Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle, and Mr. R. Watt (probation officer).