INNS OF COURT
“THE LAWYER’S” LONDON. NEW ZEALANDER’S VISIT. AUCKLAND, July ‘3. “At tho end of the meal a waiter brings you a pencil .and you make up your own debit,” said Professor R. M. Ailgie, iiu describing life, at tile Inns of Court, in an address to the Auckland branch of the Travel Men’s League yesterday. “You pay that amount as you 1 go out, so you see there is still honour among thieves.” The title of the address was “The Lawyer’s London, ’’ and the speaker confined his remarks to two or three aspects which bad .appealed to him during a stay of six weeks in that quarter last year. He said the Inns of Court were originally the home of a monastic order, but eventually passed into the hands of la legail society. In the old dkys barristers lived in chambers, but living there was now optional. One might occupy a room that hrtd been the home of successive occupants for the past 400 years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 6
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167INNS OF COURT Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 6
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