NEW MAGISTRATE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27026, 10 March 1949, Page 8

NEW MAGISTRATE

DUNEDIN DISTRICT CITY LAWYER APPOINTED The announcement that Mr John Gray Warrington, LL.B., has been appointed as stipendiary magistrate at Dunedin was made yesterday. Mr Warrington, who has been appointed to the position owing to the retirement of Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., will take up his duties on March 31. Graduating in 1931, Mr Warrington entered the legal profession in Dunedin and was for many years associated with the late Mr A. C. Hanlon, K.C., in criminal trials as well as conducting a wide court practice himself. In 1934 he joined Mr L. R. Simpson in partnership.

In his three years’ overseas service with the Third Division he at one time held temporary rank as lieutenantcolonel while temporarily in charge of the 17th Field Regiment in operations at Vella Lavella. Mr Warrington has always taken a keen interest in military training, and holds the efficiency decoration. He is chairman of the

Histories Committee producing domestic histories of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific. Mr Warrington is a member of the Dunedin Marriage Guidance Council and has been, for three years, on the council of the New Zealand LawSociety. He is also a member of the Otago Officers’ Club. He was educated at the Caversham School, of which he was dux, and the Otago Boys’ High School. Mr Warrington, who is married, with two children, is a keen bowler, being a member of the St. Clair Club.

With the retirement of Mr Bundle, Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., will become senior stipendiary magistrate at Dunedin. Mr Willis came from Wellington to the Dunedin appointment in September, 1946.