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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17215, 18 January 1918, Page 3

— Lord Reading, -who -was sent to the United States on an important financial mission, is the first Jew to hold the post of Lord Chief Justice in Groat Britain. His specialty has always been commercial work.* . Ho has a memory as retentive as a rat-trap for facts and figures. A friend of his declared chaffingly that he spends his leisure time reading favourite passages from railway time-tables. When a member of tho Junior Bar Lord Reading (he was then Mr Rufus Isaacs) once- had occasion to visit St. Stephen's, and marched boldly through the pakco yard. Ho succeeded in getting past tho policeman on duty, who, however, detected him a second or two latex, and, overtaking him, confronted him >vith tho question: Excuse mo, sir, but arc you a member?" "Not yet," was tho reply; "but I am goinp to bo soon." '.H hope you will, sir," said tho policeman; "but meanwhile would you mind goins round the other way?" That "meanwhile." oonfesrs the former Mr Ilufua Isaacs, lasted 12 jean.