WAR MEMORIAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 9

WAR MEMORIAL

LAW SOCIETY'S TABLET

UNVEILED BY ATTORNEY-

GENERAL.

The Supreme Court library was yesterday afternoon the scene of a large and representative gathering of the members of the Law Society, the occasion being the unveiling of the memorial erected by the society to those members who served and fell in the Great War.- The Hon. Sir Francis B.ell, Attorney-General, presided, and among those present were the Chief Justice (the Right Hon., Sir Robert Stout), Sir Frederick Chapman. Mr. Justice Hosking, Mr. Justice. Frazcr, Mr. C. P. Skcrrett, K.C. (president of the Nov/' -Zealand Law Society), Mr. A. Gray, X.C, Mr. M. * Myers, K.C., Professor J. Rankine-Brown (Vice-Chancellor of the New Zealand University), Professor Boyd Wilson (chairman of the Victoria College Council), Professor Adaroson, Professor Garrow, Mr. E. T. Norris (Registrar of the University), Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., Mr. C. R. Orr-WalkcrY S-M., Mr. D. O. Cooper, Mr. W. A. Hawkins (Registrar of the Supreme Court), Mr. W. Perry (president of the Wellington District Law Society), Mr. O. N. C. Pragnall' (representing the Masterton practitioners), Mr. L. M. Abraham (representing the Palmerston North practitioners), and Mr. E. H. Williams (representing the Hawkes Bay practitioners).

Sir Francis Bell, on unveiling the tablet, said that it had inscribed on it the names of those who were engaged in the profession in the Wellington district, and who had enlisted in the service of tiie country, and ■ had laid down their lives in that service. That room, which was almost exclusively the property of the profession, was the. suitable position for a tablet commemorating men they held in honour. They had realised war's hardships perhaps more than the averr age. They were- not so well fitted fpr the trials as their comrades, but love of their country and their duty caused other considerations to sink into oblivion. They had sought to do. their duty, and that duty had been nobly done. Tho survivors were happily again smongst .them, and they had the happy memory, of duty bravely - done. The others lay in grounds distant from their native land; of some they knew not where they lay. The local members |, ac j the privilege of raising a tablet to their memory, a tablet reminding the members, now arid to come, that ,it was still a- noble thing to lay down one's life, if necessary, in the service of the country, which must be placed before self. These were the men who upheld the honour of the profession and the ancient patriotism to the flag of the Empire. He then drew the drapings from the memorial, which consists of a very handsome, bronze plate mounted on' wood. On the bottom ia engraved "Sic itur ad a&tra." ("This is the way to the Stars.")