SUPREME COURT BENCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 264, 5 October 1933, Page 2

SUPREME COURT BENCH.

NEED FOR ADDITIONAL JUDGE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 4. Feference was made in the Court of Appeal by the Chief Justice (Sir M. Myers) to the inconvenience arising out of the non-appointment of a Judge to the Suprenfe Court Bench in order to fill the vacancy caused by the recent retirement of Mr Justice Adams. .His Honour, in declining to make a fixture for a part heard appeal, stated that it was impossible to make a fixture for the present sessions of the Court of Appeal. The Court would be sitting almost certainly into the following week, by which time it would have heard no fewer than twenty cases, many involving important and difficult questions of law and entailing a great deal of research. Only a few days remained between the end of the sitting and the commencement of the circuit sittings. It was necessary for one Judge from Wellington to preside at Christchurch over the sittings soon to commence there, the result being that all the Judges concerned in the Court of Appeal would soon be completely engaged on Supreme Court work. A reference to the vacant judgeship appears on page 7.