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MR O. "T. J. ALPERS. ' A CHRISTCHURCH SOLICITOR. CHRISTCHURH, This Day. Mr O. T. J, Alpers, of Messrs Garrick, Cowlishaw and Alpers, Christchurch, lias been appointed to the vacancy on the Supreme Court Bench. He will probably take up duties next month.—Press Assn. A VARIED CAREER. Mr Alpers is 58 years of age, having been born at Coponhagen in 1867. As a boy he came to New Zealand, and after going to school at Napier settled in Christchurch, wliere he took his university course, gaining his M.A. degree in 1887 with first-class honours in languages and literature. ■He was on the staff of the Christchurch Boys' High School and also did journalistic work for some years. He then decided to study law, and in 1904 he completed his LL.B. degree and was admitted to the Bar, joining the firm of Garrick, Cowlishaw and Nicholls. He rapidly came to the front in his profession, earning a particularly high reputation as a pleader in criminal eases. Mr Alpers has been a. frequent contributor to British Reviews and is the author of the "Jubilee Book of Canterbury Rhymes," published in 1900, and an anthology of "College Rhymes" and other literary works.
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Northern Advocate, 7 February 1925, Page 5
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