Solicitor-General Named

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 1

Solicitor-General Named

(N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, Feb. 3.

A Wellington barrister, Mr J. C. White, was named SolicitorGeneral tonight by the Attorney-General (Mr Hanan). He is expected to assume office on February 14.

Mr White will succeed Mr H. R. C. Wild, Q.C.. who was appointed Chief Justice in January. The new Solicitor-General was born in Dunedin in 1911 and educated at John McGlashan College. Dunedin, and Victoria University College. Wellington, where he graduated master of laws. He was called to the bar

in 1936. He left New Zealand with the First Echelon of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. and served in

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[Greece. Crete, North Africa land Italy. I Mr White was aide-de-camp

and personal assistant to General Freyberg throughout the greater part of the Second World War and was mentioned in dispatches. He was awarded the M.B.E. in 1943. Returning from active service, he followed his father as a partner in the Wellington firm of Young, Bennett, Virtue and White. The Attorney-General said Mr White had wide experience in civil litigation and in inquiries by commissions and Parliamentary committees. He said the new SolicitorGeneral was director of the army legal service and responsible for the legal administration of military courts martial. Mr White is also legal assessor of the New Zealand Medical Council. Mr Hanan said Mr White had taken a prominent part ,in Law Society affairs and

i i was a former president of the Wellington District Law Social ety.

He said the new SolicitorGeneral was at present a vice-president of the LawSociety and a member of the council of law reporting. Mr White was a member of the Attorney-General’s committee on absolute liability and is the convener of the Law Society’s committee on legal aid. He was the Law Society representative at conference of the legal profession on world peace through the rule of law at Athens in 1963 and Washington in 1965. Mr White was also a representative of the New Zealand section of the International Commission of Jurists at Bangkok in February last year.

Mr Hanan said outside the field of law, Mr White’s main interest had been the Returned Services’ Association of which he was Dominion vicepresident. Mr White is married with four children.