CLASSICAL CORNISH

NZ Truth, Issue 1035, 26 September 1925, Page 6

CLASSICAL CORNISH

BEFORE taking to the law m private practice m Wellington, H. H. Cornish spent much of his time as a master at Banks' College, with a special forte for the teaching of English and literature. He was specially qualified for the work; indeed, he was — and still is, for that matter — naturally adapted to it, for at the University College he was one of the most brilliant students, with a sponge-like capacity for sucking up knowledge. • With a bug for reading, he is deeply drenched m the classics. An apt quotation comes easily from his lips, often to enliven an address and point a moral to a jury. "And he was Badcock's friend," came from his lips m a recent trial, and he couldn't resist adding, a la . Mark Antony, "faithful and just to him."