SIR ROBERT STOUT

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2279, 21 May 1921, Page 2

SIR ROBERT STOUT

CREATED A PRIVY COIN- v CILLOR. ..r*

Auckland, Yesterday. The Governor- General has advised that the King has been ciously pleased -to'appoint Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, a member of the Honourable Privy Council.

The appointment of Sir Robert Stout to the Privy Council, as announced in the above, is made as a member of the Judicial Committee on the recommendation of the New Zealand Government. It places the Chief Justice of New Zealand in the same position as the Chief Justices of Canada and South Africa, who are already members of the Judicial Committee, but sit only when they chance to be in England. The appointment does not mean that Sir Robert Stout will vacate his position in New Zealand. So far as is known lie will-return to the Dominion, but when he is in England he will be privileged to sit as a member of the Privy Council. Sir Robert Stout is- the second New Zealand Judge to receive this nigh honour. The first was the late Mr Justice Williams, who, however, was appointed to the Privy Council after his retirement from the New Zealand Judicial Bench. That the honour is one which will be warmly approved is undoubted. The expressions of high esteem which were given when the Clyef Justice left New Zealand last month are sufficient proof of this. Sir Robert Stout has been Chief Justice since 1809. He was in New Zealand political 1 life, with intervals, from 187’ to 1807, and in the-Stout-Vogol Ministry held the offices of Premier, At-torney-General, and Minister of Education.