A Judge’s Recollections
“It appears strange now that when I first went on the Bench there was not a single judge who owned a motor-car or who played golf,” said Sir John Reed to a Law Society company in Wellington, who bad farewell to him on his retirement from the Supreme Court Bench. “Mr Justice Edwards,” added Sir John, “had a motor-cycle, and it was a source of great annoyance to him that big drays and lorries would not give him proper room to pass on the road. He didn’t forget it, either when a lorry driver happened to come into the witness box. The result of the absence of the distraction of owning a motor-car or playing golf was a very full attendance of judges on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays in the judges’ library. I acquired the habit then, and, curiously enough, it is one of the things that I shall miss most."
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Southland Times, Issue 23946, 12 October 1939, Page 2
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154A Judge’s Recollections Southland Times, Issue 23946, 12 October 1939, Page 2
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