SLR JOHN SALMOND

Southland Times, Issue 19357, 24 September 1924, Page 6

SLR JOHN SALMOND

MORE TRIBUTES FROM BENCH AND BAR. (Per United Press Association.) MASTERTON, September 23. At the Supreme Court this morning feeling tributes tq, the memory of the late Sir John Salmond were expressed on behalf of the Masterton Bar by Mr H. C. Robinson, who said that misfortune had overtaken not only the country and the Empire, but all the nations who were to-day seeking some basis of common agreement to stop war. They were in desperate need of men who were articulate, not only on their own people, but on the people of other nations. Such a man was Sir John Salmond His weight held sway among all the Jurists of the Empire. Messrs A. F. Wright (Christchurch) and D. M. Findlay (Wellington) added glowing eulogies on behalf of their respective Bars. • His Honour Mr Justice MacGregor, endorsing the tributes, said that Sir John Salmond’s name was conspicuous in New Zealand's colonial life. He was a man of profound learning and outstanding ability, a great student and a free writer, whose opinions were accepted in the highest and most intellectual circles. The blow was a sudden one to his family, and to-day Bench and Bar sympathised with them and publicly deplored his loss.