TEMPORARY JUDGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 6

TEMPORARY JUDGE

SUPREME COURT BENCH. MR J. 11. QUILLIAM APPOINTED. By Telegraph. —Press Association. WELLINGTON, This Day. An announcement that Mr James Henry Quilliam, a former well-known New Plymouth lawyer, had been appointed to act as a judge of the Supreme Court to relieve Mr Justice Ostler, was macle yesterday by the Attorney-General, Hon H. G. R. Mason. Mr Mason said that because of the continued illness of Mr Justice Ostler it had become necessary to make a temporary appointment, and that morning the Governor-General in Council had appointed Mr Quilliam to the position to act as a judge during the absence of Mr Justice Ostler.

Mr Quilliam was well known throughout Taranaki, said the Minister, as a member of the legal firm of Govett and Quilliam, of New Plymouth, one of the oldest-established firms of legal practitioners. He retired from active practice some 12 months ago, and had since been a resident of Auckland. Mr Justice Quilliam wili take up his duties immediately, and will officiate largely in Wellington and in those circuits adjacent to Wellington that were the charge of Mr Justice Ostler.

It is understood that the temporary judge will assist the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in hearing the civil cases in Wellington which have been postponed because a judge to hear them has not been available. Fixtures are to be made on Monday afternoon. The Chief Justice will not be back from Hamilton until the following Monday.