SUPREME COURT JUDGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 8

SUPREME COURT JUDGES

MR. JUSTICE SIM PROMOTED.

MR. HOSKING APPOINTED.

OTHER ALTERATIONS PENDING.

[by TELEGRAPH.PRESS association.]

Wellington, Thursday. The Attorney-General (the Hon. A. L. Herdman) made the following statement •to a reporter to-day:—"The resignation of Sir Joshua Williams will take effect from tho 31st of this month. Mr. Justice Sim will relinquish the office of president of the Arbitration Court, and will in future perform judicial duties only. Mr. 'Hosking, K.C., of Dunadin, has been offered and has accepted the seat upon the Supremo Court Bench, which will have to be filled when the Judicature Amendment Act passed last session comes into force on February 1 next.

" Who will be the new president of the Arbitration Court has not yet been settled. ■On this point I shall probably be able to •make a statement before the end of the present week."

MB. JUSTICE HOSKING.

AN AUCKLAND-TRAINED LAWYER.

[BT TELEGRAPH.—'PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , Dunedin, Thursday. John Henry Hosking, K.C., whose appointment as Judge has been confirmed, has being so long in practice in Dunedin that many people would argue confidently that he is a native of the city. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, 59 years ago, and ho was brought out to Auckland by his parents in the year 1856. He was educated in Auckland, and at 16 was articled for five years to the late Mr. Samuel Jackson, of the firm of Messrs. Jackson and Russell, whose name still flourishes in Auckland. He was admitted, in Auckland, as a barrister and solicitor, by the late Mr. Justice Gillies, in 1875, and then came to Dunedin as managing clerk to Mr. Kenyori, whom he joined as partner in 1877. The firm was dissolved in 1898. Mr. Hosking carried on his practice alone for 10 years, when he joined Mr. John Cook in partnership. He was appointed a King's Counsel in June. 1907. Last year he was 'appointed by the Government 'to act with Mr. A. Mcintosh, as a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Public Trust Office.

As a pleader, Mr. Hosking, K.C., was deliberate, thorough, and scrupulously fairqualities which should serve him well as Mr. Justice Hosking. *