SIR WALTER STRINGER

Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 6

SIR WALTER STRINGER

Bench And Bar Pay Tribute (P.A.) WELLINGTON, December 12. Bench and Bar today paid tribute to the memory of Sir Walter Stringer, eulogizing his qualities as an eminent advocate and judge and as a great gentleman.

The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said it was so many years since Sir Walter Stringer had retired from the Bench that to many he was little more than a name, but those who knew him would share the deep regret that members of the Bench felt at his demise. Since he retired there had arisen a new generation of judges, none of whom had had the privilege of sitting with him as colleagues, but some members of the Bench had had the privilege of practising before him. As a judge Sir Walter Stringer displayed infinite fairness and impartiality and a courtly urbanity, qualities which had gained him the respect, esteem and admiration of the public, as well as the profession. He had left memories of which his family might well be proud. The Hon. H. G. R. Mason, the At-torney-General, and Mr H. F. O’Leary, K.C., president of the New Zealand Law Society, associated all members of the profession with the tribute.