DEPARTURE OF MAGISTRATE.

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 2

DEPARTURE OF MAGISTRATE.

SOLICITORS ’ GOOD WISHES. ME. STOUT LEAVES LEVIN (Special to “Times”) LEVIN, June 18. Having been transferred to Welling* ton as senior Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout leaves shortly to take up his new appointment, after spending a number of years on the Palmerston North circuit. Mr. Stoat presided at the Levin Court for the last time on Thursday, and at the conclusion of the the members of the legal profession paid tribute to liis work and extended good wishes to him for the i future. Mr. D. P. Todd congratulated His Worship on his new appointment, but expressed regret that he was leaving Levin. He said the relations between the bench and the bar had always been most cordial, and it was his hope that in his new sphere Mr. Stout would find the work more pleasurable. Mr. N. M. Thomson also extended good wishes and congratulations. He said that to these expressions would be added the regrets of the bar at the termination of a long association with the district. When he first came to Otaki in 1925 Mr. titout was administering justice to the satisfaction of the legal practitioners and the general public. He expressed the hope that the termination of Mr. Stout’s arduous duties on the country circuit would be followed by long life to enjoy his less arduous work in Wellington. Mr. W. P. Rollings, in paying tribute and extending good wishes, remarked that if it could be said of onyone that he had endeavoured to employ expedition consistent with the administering of justice, it could be said of Mr. Stout. The speaker said he regretted llis Worship’s departure from Levin, but felt certain that in his new sphere ho would find the work congenial. Mr. J. P. M. Bertram also added his congratulations and good wishes to Mr. Stout. His Worship thanked the bar for its kind sentiments. He said that if he had not had the co-operation of the profession and the assistance of a good staff and constables, he would not have been able to carry out his duties to the public. There was a good deal of satisfaction to him in going back to the city where he had spent twenty years of his life, and in the fact that he was going to the senior magistracy. He again thanked the speakers for their good wishes.