RHODES OF THE ROBES

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 6

RHODES OF THE ROBES

MO, not a Rhodes scholar, but quite a scholar nevertheless is Eric G Rhodes, j 1 > Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington and also Clerk . of Awards. . : His is the genial physiognomy that encounters budding lawyers lost m -, the Sea of Despair over some legal conundrum, and he has been the beacon 3 light for many legal practitioners who are successfully ensconced m the robes of office to-day. "I'm going to be a blacksmith or a clerk of the court who wears nice ■' robes," he told his mother jocularly when a youngster and left her somewhat J ' perplexed as to his strange fancies. ; v < : But he never toiled at the anvil, although he lived to find out that the intricacies of litigation can make it pretty hot sometimes for those who attend to the machinery of the law. . Everything he does, however, he hammers out thoroughly on the anvil of - conscientiousness and loi'ges his job with strong links of courtesy, and that's ( something 1 these days, as every lawyer and law clerk m Wellington who has , business at the Supreme Court will testify. Watch a couple of law clerks scratch their heads over a legal problem, then see- the dawn of hope express itself on the face of one. "Say" you'll hear him remark, "ask Rhodes; he knows," and ten to one they'll push open the door of the Supreme Court office and enter. '