FULL WIG AND GOWN
SUPREME COURT REGISTRARS FOLLOWING ENGLISH CUSTOM [BY TEI.EGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLING TON, Tuesday' Full wig and gown will in future be worn by registrars or deputy-registrars on duty at sittings in metropolitan Supreme Courts or in the Court of Appeal, irrespective of whether they are barristers or not. The Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. I?. Mason, in an interview, said that those attending Supreme Courts may have nQticed that some registrars and deputy-registrars were robed with full wig and gown, whereas others were robed with gown only. In England these officials were invariably robed with full wig and gtnvn when in Court. An explanation of the practice hitherto observed in New Zealand was that the full wig and gown was worn only by registrars who had been admitted as barristers of the Court and as such were entitled to wear the wig and gown. The Chief Justice, Sir Michnel Myers,, bad given consideration to this question of divergence between New Zealand and Knglish usage, added the Minister, and from now on the English custom would be followed in the Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23272, 15 February 1939, Page 16
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184FULL WIG AND GOWN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23272, 15 February 1939, Page 16
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