Rural Mortgagors' Court of Review

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 7

Rural Mortgagors' Court of Review

PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED (Special to “Times.”) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Tho Acting Prime Minister (Hon. E. A. Ransom) announced to-day that the Court of Review, established by the Rural Mortgagors’ Final Adjustment Act of last session, had been selected as follows: Judge: Mr. Justice Johnston, of Christchurch. Members: Mr. Ralph Searle Chadwick, of Dannevirkc. Mr. Alfred Coleman, of Stratford.. The appointments were made to-day, and tho Court of Review is to come into operation on May I. Mr Justice- 1 Johnston was born in Wellington in 1875 and is tho fourth son of the late Sir Charles Johnston. He received his education at the Wanganui Collegiate School and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1597. He was called to tho English Bar in 1897, and later in the same year was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Mr Justice Johnston was a prominent member of the Wellington Bar for many years, and in 1928 was president of the Wellington District Law Society. For many years ho represented tho Marlborough Society on the Council of the New Zealand Law Society. He was appointed to the Supreme Court B-ench on February 1, 193-1, and most of his judicial' work has been performed in Christchurch.

Mr R. S. Chadwick is a well-known farmer in the southern Hawke’s Bay district, and for many years lias taken a prominent part in the affairs of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, of which ho was treasurer for some time. He was also president of the Southern Hawke’s Bay branch of the Farmers’ Union and was elected to the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board in 1923. Mr Chadwick has also been prominent in local-body" affairs and has sat as a member of the Danncvirkc Borough Council and the Southern Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board. Mr Chadwick is chairman of directors of tho Whakatu Freezing Company, and is chairman of the Mortgagors’ Adjustment Commission for Hawke’s Bay.

Mr A. Coleman is a solicflor practising in Stratford, and is chairman of the Mortgagors’ Relief Commission for Taranaki.