PRESENTATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1985, 16 February 1914, Page 6

PRESENTATION.

ME. COOPER'S PROildilON.' , Th<*rc was'.a::ln : fiie : :.gat!ierifig'.of<tlve Wellington Bar -iii tire library of the Supreme CouJ-t oiii'Saturday morning, Avhen a .ptosentitiori' was mado to Mr. U. G.'A. Cooper,' Registrar «'f.the Sup'fenie Court ana'C-om't;-6f:Appeal r q.hd ShcrilF Of t-lie WelhtigtOh district, .who liasbteh ' promoted "to the jjawisteml Bench."' • . Mr. C.; IJ, MoriSoii., .•.president of the ■Law'Saciety,.'sa!d;.it ..was their unanihimis wish that,Mr, : Cooper •should'nieot. Hiern there.toigiyeitJiom an opj)drtunity to tetodor corflfrtttta.tions'onsh.is.a.p-: pointmeiit' as'.Jkw'istratc. Jt was; lie b.e:l.i : eved.,' 31 ■ years 'silito Mr. Cooper, was appointed ;t)epiity-RcgistMr, and ■shortly afterwards Registrar, of the'Su* troms Court, Couft; of Appeal, ifaft \ heriff. His js'ew; attpointmetit. testified ] to tiip. manner in:Wfiie'h he had Carried out ;'t|ias6 duties. Tlio nwijting ako te?tiJiei to tlio'fisariSeriftJvliieh,liis iei , - vi.ces We're appreciated-by tho legal fra-i-ernity.. He hoped \k WSs s source-of ■pleasure ■to Mt.; Cooppr , to' repiem'be-r th:at tiis rclatioiiswi|l) tJic Bar.iad nlways been of a' mQstJharßrcmious «lvar- '■ aotifif! ■ They would 'like him to. accept , ' something as a. record til this goad feeling.' lii his 80* office fi'o.eiie.ltadt'ho' flightest doubt';he weiild bi'ing to ; bear; tlicsaniq sound judgment .lie had • shown aji'-tjifc,past. Tuey:.wished him a lonp se'rvico as a : a service ,whi.c : h they ■ hoped Would.: Oiilv .be teriivihakd by pfonibtioti to .some'higher office.' . ' ":.Mr. Morisoii.; then,, made the. prp?e.ntfltion of a : silver .aftcMioou tea'set, si silVef salver, and; a set Of Jjqfd. H;St.l.sJntry's Laws of Eilgtond., Thp' 'inscription on the gift was; rt Pi*sen.to4 to.-'D. G. A. Cooper., by the barristers ajid ■soiicitofs of Welliiigton; ns a mark of tbek esteem and 'friendship on tho .occasion of his, appointment, tis'.Magistrate of the pity', F6bruaf.v, i 914-/' 1 'In ro : ply. Sir. Cooper said it w : as all he catild do to' estofess' his' thanks for their great kiiidrtes's, aiidfor tho mantier in which Mr. Morisoli's observatione had been 'njiitle:.' ;LooMng back oter ■the.years passed amongst tliein, tm felt, pride that tho. relations' betw'ben tho : Mr antl liilnself J>ad' always boon of tho most cordial aiaiurc. they had always n shQwii ■ tli'c ! greatest ce.nsidera-tioH't-oWards hiiiV mollis office. It was a sotifco of pHdf to liiin to think he was n mcinherof siifih ii'Bii.f as tlioy hiicl in Wclimsiton,, a r ßftfw!ircli wrts second to noiie. tto again tliaiikrd them forttoir great kindness.. . (A.ppla-use.)