"NEAR PERFECTION"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22833, 14 September 1937, Page 12

"NEAR PERFECTION"

GREAT JUDGE'S WORK SIR JOSHUA WILLIAMS A noteworthy tribute to the late Mr. Justice Williams was paid by Mr. Justice Callnn yesterday when, at- a gathering of the Bench and Bar, he passed a eulogy on 3lr. Justice Adams, whose death in Christchurch occurred on Friday. His Honor said that Mr. Justice Adams had enjoyed for many years a fortunate experience which must have done much to fit him for the high office he afterwards filled so well; and that was tho advantage of practising for so many years in a Court presidocl over by that sound lawyer and kindly, dignified gentleman, the late Mr. Justice Williaips. " It was a privilege and an education to watch that really great man, Sir Joshua," said His Honor. " as, day after day, he did his work in a manner that as nearly approached perfection as anything we imperfect mortals are entitled to expect from one of pur own species. From the Court over which he presided there graduated to the Bench many of our judges—a Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout. Mr. Justice Denniston, Mr. Justice Chapman, Mr. Justice Sim, Mr. Justice Hosking, Mr. Justice McGregor and Mr. Justice Adams. " I beiieve that these judges owed much of their fitness for judicial office to the fact that their daily life as barristers had for years put before them a great pattern and example of judicial excellence."