OBITUARY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3799, 31 May 1928, Page 3

OBITUARY

SIR JOHN HOSKING,

The death occurred at Wellington yesterday of Sir John llosking, K. 8., who retired from the •Supreme Court Bench about three years ago. He had been in failing health for some months.

Born at Penzance, Cornwall, in 1854 Sir John Hosking came to New Zealand with his parents as a child, and received his education in Auckland, where the family settled. At the age of sixteen he was articled to the late Mr. Samuel Jaek : soil, of Jackson and JR-ussell, one of the early law firms of Auckland, and he was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor by Mr. Justice Gillies in 1875. Shortly afterwards he removed to Dunedin, where, in 1877, he became a member of the firm of Kenyon and Hosking, which was carried on until 1898.

For the next ten years he practised alone, after which lie took in Mr. John Cook as partner. In 1907 he was appointed King’s Counsel, and in 1914 came his elevation to the Supreme Court Bench, where lie sat until illhealth compelled him to consider his resignation. He retired early in 1925, and his long record of service on the Bench was recognised by the King in conferring on him the honour of Knight Bachelor in the Birthday List of that year. The late Sir John Hosking is survived by his widow,, Lady Hosking (nee Miss Reader), and leaves a family of one daughter (Mrs. Dundas Allan, of Sydney, who is at present in New Zealand) ; and two sons (Mr. John Hosking, who is at a. university in Holland), and Mr. Christopher Hosking, who is farming in Canterbury. There are no grandchildren.