BENCH AND BAR.

Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 6

BENCH AND BAR.

TRIBUTE TO JUDGE WILLIAMS. [Pee United Phess Association.] WELLINGTON, May 5. Local practitioners entertained the Judges of the Appeal Court, Mr Bell, K.C., presiding. Apologies were received from the Chief Justice (Sir R. Stout), the AttorneyGeneral (Hon. Dr Findlay), Sir James Prendergast, and Mr Justice Sim. A resolution passed hy the Otago Law Society was read. This tendered to Mr Justice Williams their congratulations upon his having been enabled to discharge his high office in a manner beneficial to the public, so honorable to himself, and for a term exceeding in duration that of any other Judge of the Supreme Court in Australasia. Replying, Mr Justice Williams said that it was quite true that he had made a record, but he thought the fact of his sitting for thirty-three years was creditable not so much to himself as to the vitality of his constitution. He hoped to continue to sit for many yearn. His Honor said that ho had always done his best to be on good terms with the profession, and to assist the younger members of the Bar. The Bench and Bar, he said, had noble traditions, and should do iheir best to act up to them.