COURT REGISTRARS
FULL WIG AND GOWN. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON,_ Feb. 13. Full wig and gown will in future l>e worn by registrars or deputy-registrars on duty at sittings in metropolitan Supreme Courts or in the Court of Appeal, irrespective of whether they arc barristers or not. The Attorney-General (Hon. H. G. 11. Mason), in an interview to-day, said that those attending Supreme Courts might have noticed some registrars and deputy-registrars were robed with full wig and gown, whereas others were robed with gown only. In England these officials were invariably robed with full wig and gown when in Court. The explanation of the practice hitherto observed in New Zealand was that full wig and gown were worn only by registrars who had been admitted as barristers of the Court and as such were entitled to wear wig and gown. The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Mvers) had given consideration to this question of divergence between New Zealand and English usage,- and from now on the English custom would he followed in the Dominion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 14 February 1939, Page 9
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173COURT REGISTRARS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 14 February 1939, Page 9
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