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Mr. J. W. Card ahd'Miss Card, of Featherston, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. MacKay, Tiro Tiro Road. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) has announced that the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) had expressed a desire to re.tire at the end of this month. The Government would arrange accordingly. Mr. Fraser recailed that Sir Michael reached the statutory retiring age last September, but, in view of the uncertain conditions then existing, the Judicature Act was amended to enable his term of office to be extended for a periqd not exceeding one year. ' "Sir Michael has pointed out that the times fixed for the sittings of the Supreme Court and the C^Urt of Appeal make the end of the present month the time most convenient for any successor to assume office," Mr. Fraser said. There would later be an opportunity of referring to the retiring Chief Justice's eminent services.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1946, Page 4
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