NATIVE COURT JUDGE
GISBORNE SOLICITOR MR. WHITEHEAD’S POST SOUTHERN DISTRICTS The appointment of Mr. A. A. Whitehead, a Well-known Gisborne solicitor, to the position of judge in the Native Land Court is announced. Mr. Whitehead’s circuit Will be IP tnfe Wellington and South Island districts, and the appointment dates from January 1. Mr. Whitehead, who has been in practice in Gisborne for nearly 20 years, has had a great deal of experience with the Maori people in this district and on the East Coast, and for six years was headmaster at the Te Araroa Native School. ' ' • Taking his degrees at the Bristol University. Mr. Whitehead left England in 1914, and for a time was science master at the Adelaide High School and afterwards mathematics master at the Ballarat Grammar School. He came to New Zealand in 1916. and accepted a position as headmaster at the Te Araroa Native School, relinauishing it in 1921 to return to England, where he entered a legal nr notice, but came back' to New Zealand and set up a practice in Gisborne early in 1923.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 3 December 1942, Page 2
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180NATIVE COURT JUDGE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 3 December 1942, Page 2
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