LATE MR JUSTICE ADAMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 September 1937, Page 6

LATE MR JUSTICE ADAMS

TRIBUTES FROM BENCH AND BAR lIU Telegninli I'i-uks Asxooituioiil WELLINGTON, This Day. Fixtures for the Court of Appeal and the Full Court were made this morning before the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), and Justices Ostler, Smith. Johnston and Fair. Prior to making the fixtures, the death of Mr Justice Adams was brought to the notice of the bench and bar by Sir Michael Myers, and tributes were paid by the Chief Justice and the Soli-citor-General (Mr H. H. Cornish, K.C.). on behalf of the Attorney-General, by Mr G. G. G. Watson for the New Zealand Law Society, and Mr P B. Cooke. K.C., on behalf of the Wellington District Law Society. Sir Michael Myers intimated that after the fixtures had been made, the Court would adjourn as a mark of respect until to-morow morning. Members of the Bench and Bar met at the Supreme Court this morning when Mr Justice Kennedy paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of the late Mr Justice Adams.

Mr Justice Kennedy, Mr Smith (President of the Law Society), and the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, all referred particularly to deceased's helpfulness and kindness as a practising barrister to his younger colleagues. Associated on the Bench with Mr Justice Kennedy was Sir Walter Stringer.

CHRISTCHURCH TRIBUTES CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Representatives of the Supreme Court bench, Ihe magistracy and legal profession gathered this morning to pay tribute to the memory of Judge Adams. After Mr Justice Northcroft and the President of the Canterbury Low Society (Mr K. M. Gresson) spoke, the Court adjourned for 30 minutes. Mr Justice Northcroft said that throughout a long and honourable life. Judge Adams enriched the community, whether by services as a member of his profession at the bar and on the Bench, or by faithful, disinterested services in the cause of social reform Mr Gresson said that after Judge Adams’s arrival in a surprisingly short time there grew up between him and the Christchurch bar, a relationship which was extraordinarily happy. The extent of his legal learning and particularly to his outstanding konwledge of cularly to his outstanding knowledge of couragement, many of them owed more than they realised. Judge Adams’s funeral yesterday was attended by many member; of the legal profession.

TRIBUTES AT AUCKLAND "A LEARNED LAWYER” AUCKLAND. This Day. “It is fitting that the Bench and Bar should unite in doing honour to the merits and services of a distinguished fellow-worker whom death has taken from us. ’ said Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court this morning. while paying a tribute to the memory of the late Mr Justice Adams. “He devoted himself with great intensity to that exacting. useful and honourable calling to which both Bench and Bar belong tt was my privilege to know him and his work and worth during the fifteen vears of his practice in Dunedin He was gifted with a tvpe of mind oceuliarly suited to command success in our profession. [lts mind was quick nenelrating. and subtle He had an infinite capacity for taking pains, untiring energy and great industry, and was a learned lawvcr 'lie best tribute we can pay the memory of Mr Justice Adams and the lawyers and Judges of' hi? generation is to see that in our hands the torch they held and have now passed on to pc does not grow iim ’’ Mr A H Johnstone paid a tribute on behalf of the Bar. "Few men were more entirely frep of vanity and affoclation ” he said

'”hr> Court ndiourned for hadf an hour as a mark of respect.