MAGISTRATES WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 12

MAGISTRATES WORK

TRIBUTES TO MR. WILSON HAMILTON APPRECIATION [from OCR OWN correspondent! HAMILTON. Tuesday Appreciative reference to the service* of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., during the seven years he has been stipendiary magistrate at Hamilton, was made in the Hamilton Police Court to-day. Mr. Wyvern Wilson was on the Bench and there was a large attendance of members of the Hamilton Law Society. Mr. F. A. Swarbrick, president o! the society, said Hamilton legal practitioners desired to congratulate Mr. Wilson on his appointment as senior magistrate at Auckland and to say thai his many excellent qualities wdl merited the appointment. During the time Mr. Wilson had been in Hamilton he had always given counsel a careful and patient hearing. Solicitors were grateful for the way in which Mr. Wilson had always insisted on cases being properly prepared and presented, and for tho way in which the Court was conducted. Tho training they received in Mr. Wilson's Court well fitted them to appear in any Court in the Dominion. Mr. Swarbrick expressed the. hope that Mr. Wilson would be long spared to carry on his important and dignified office in Auckland.

Mr. Wilson suitably replied and thanked the Hamilton Bar for the cooperation the members had always given him.