LATE JUDGE ADAMS

Grey River Argus, 14 September 1937, Page 3

LATE JUDGE ADAMS

TRIBUTES FROM JUDGES. CHRISTCHURCH, September 13. Mr Justice Adams’ funeral yesterday was attended by many members of the legal profession. Representatives of the Supreme Court Bench, Magistracy, and legal profession gathered this morning to pay a tribute to the memory of Judge Adams. Justice Northcroft said that throughout a long and honourable life, Mr Justice Adams enriched the community whether by his services as a member of the profession at the Bar and on the Bench, or by faithful disinterested services in the cause of social reform. Mr Gresson said that after Justice Adams’ arrival, in a surprisingly short time there grew up between him --d the Christchurch Bar a rela-

tionship extraordinarily happy. To the extent of his legal learning, and particularly to his outstanding knowledge of equity law, as well as to kindly encouragement, many of them owed more than they realised. DUNEDIN, September 13. Members of the Bench and Bar met at the Supreme Court this morning when Mr Justice Kenedy paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of the late Mr Justice Adams. Mr Justice Kennedy, Mr Smith (president of the Law Society), and the Hon. Downie Stewart all referred particularly to the deceased's helpfulness and kindness as a practising barrister to his younger colleagues. Associated on the Bench with Mr Justice Kennedy was Sir Walter Stringer. AUCKLAND, September 13. “It is fitting that Bench and Bar should unite in doing honour to the merits and services of a distinguished fellow worker whom death had taken from us,” said Mr Justice Callan at the Supreme Court this morning in paying a tribute to the memory of the late Mr Justice Adams. “He devoted himself with great intensity to that exacting, useful and honourable calling to which both Bench and Bar belong. It was my privilege to know him and his work and worth during the fifteen years- of his practice in Dunedin. He was gifted with a type of mind peculiarly suited to command success in our profession, a mind quick, penetrating and subtle. He had infinite capacity for taking pains, untiring energy, and great industry. He was a learned' lawyer, and the best tribute we can pay the memory of Mr Justice Adams and the lawyers and Judges of his generation is to see that in our hands the torch they held and have now passed on to us does not grow dim.” Mr A. H. Johnstone paid a tribute on behalf of the Bar. “Few men were more entirely free of vanity and af-1 fectation,” he said. The Court adjourned for half an hour as a mark of respect. WELLINGTON, September 13. Tributes to Judge Adams were paid by the Chief Justice and the SolicitorGeneral, Mr H. H. Cornish, K.C., on behalf of the Attorney-General, byMr G. G. Watson, for the New Zealand Law Society, and Mr P. B. Cooke on behalf of the Wellington District Law Society. Chief Justice Myers intimated the Court would adjourn as a mark of respect until to-morrow morning.