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New Zealand Tablet, 6 March 1913, Page 27

There, are 248 solicitors practising in the Wellington districtone less than last year. Twenty-one of those practising in the district last year have ceased to practise, left the district, or died, while 20 others have commenced practice. This change reduces the number practising in the city by four (123), while the country towns of the district gain three in number (126). The number of practitioners in the Dominion at the end of 1912 was 963 an increase of 45 over last year's returns. The number shown to be practising in the respective districts, and the increase or decrease shown for the year are as follows (the figures -in brackets are the numbers for 1911) : Auckland 214 (226), Hamilton 42, Hawke’s Bay 51 (52), Marlborough 12 (11), Nelson 21 (18), Otago 104 (106), Southland 36 (33), Taranaki 62 (53), Wellington 248 (249), Westland 23 (22). North Island 640 (600), South Island 323 (318), Canterbury 127 (128), Gisborne 23 (20). - v ; ,