DOMINION NEWS
JUDGE AYSON RETIRES.
P.A. WELLINGTON, Dec. 14. Mr. Nash announced in Cabident the recently approved retirement on superannuation of Judge H. F. Ayson, Resident Commissioner and Chief Judge in the Cook Islands with his headquarters in naratonga. Judge Ayson’s service in the Cook Islands began in June 1916, as Judge in the Native Land Court and of the Hign Court. In 1922 he became Resident Commissioner, while retaining his other appointments, and so he continued for twenty-one years, broken only by a year’s service with the Native Department in New Zealand in 1937/38, until he left Raratonga on his retirement in September 1943. Mr. Nash said Judge Ayson’s long tropical service was indicative of the ■grateful regard in which he was held both by the Government and the people of the Cook Islands.
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Grey River Argus, 15 December 1943, Page 5
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