NOTED GERMAN JUDGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 5

NOTED GERMAN JUDGE

DEATH AT SEVENTY-SIX ACTED AS PRESIDENT (Rec. July 16, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. The death of Dr. Waiter Simons, who was the acting President of Germany from Herr Ebert's death until the election of Field-Marshal von Hindenberg in 1925, has occurred. He was 76 years of age. He was appointed as a judge of the Reich Court in 1893, becoming president of the Supreme Court in 1922. He retired from the bench in 1929 and was appointed as professor of international law at the Leipzig University.

FORMER BISHOP PASSES DR. PHILIP CRICK LONDON, July 13. The death is reported of the Rev. Dr. Philip Charles Crick, Assistant Bishop of Derby and vicar of Ashbourne. He was born in Bedfordshire in 1882 and educated at Winchester and at Pembroke College. Cambridge. At the close of a distinguished academic career he became a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, in 190 C, and in 1908 was made dean. He served in France in 1915-18. and in 1921-27 was Bishop of Rockhampton. From 1927 to 1935 he was Bishop of Ballarat. He has published various works on the church.