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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18510, 22 March 1922, Page 6

Medical science has determined that sedea* tary occupations are not conducive to longevity. It is difficult, to find an occupation more sedentary than that of a judge, but tlio batch of judges who have retired within the last few years have not had their chances of longevity impaired (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Judge Rogers has passed tha octogenarian mark; Judge Murray is creeping up to it, and likewise Judge Docker. Judge Heydon is making for seven years more than three-scoro and 10, and so is Judge Fitz.hardinge. Mr Justice Sly has passed the 70 mark by three years, and Judge Backhouse is lagging only two years behind. Seventy years was iegarded by Mr Justice Sly as comparative longevity, and he returned to tile bar | n A consultative capacity.