FULL WIG AND GOWN FOR REGISTRARS
ROBING AT SUPREME COURT SITTINGS (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 13. Full wig and gown will in future be worn by registrars or deputy-registrars on duty at sittings in the metropolitan Supreme Courts or in the Court of Appeal irrespective of whether they are barristers or not.
The Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) in an interview today said that those attending Supreme Courts may have noticed that some registrars and deputy-registrars were robed with full wig and gown, whereas others were robed with gowp only. In England these officials were invariably robed with full wig and gown when in Court. An explanation of Jie practice hitherto observed in New Zealand was that full wig and gown was worn only by registrars who had been admitted as barristers of the Court and as such were entitled to wear wig and gown. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, had given consideration to this question of divergence between New Zealand and English usage and from now on: English custom would be followed in the Dominion.
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Southland Times, Issue 23742, 14 February 1939, Page 6
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