HIGH TRIBUTES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 6

HIGH TRIBUTES

LAW SOCIETY GATHERING' (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 1. “The cause of the casualties of industrial life and their dependants never had a stouter champion,” declared Mr Justice Cornish in the Supreme Court yesterday before a large legal gathering assembled to do honour to the memory of the late Mr. P. ,T. O'Regan. Mr. Justice Tyndall, president of the Arbitration Court, was with Mr. Justice Cornish on the Bench. Mr. Justice Cornish referred to Mr. O'Regan’s early life as a member of Parliament, and said that at the close of his life he was again a member of the Legislature actively engaged in the shaping of the law. "Patrick Joseph O’Regan was at every point a man, a great-hearted, generous, honourable and lovable man. We shall miss him. but it is good for us to have known him,” Mr. Justice Cornish said. Mr. Justice Tyndall associated himself with the tributes expressed by Mr. Justice Cornish. Others who paid a tribute included the Solicitor-General. Mr. H. E. Evans. K.C., the president of the New Zealand Law Society, Mr. P. B. Cooke, K.C.. and the president of the Wellington Law' Society.' Mr. J. R. Ei Bennett