JOHN SAXON BARTON, S.M.

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 6

JOHN SAXON BARTON, S.M.

, m Popular Magistrate and Keen Cricketer

NO one will dispute the fact that John S. Barton, the genial magistrate who presides over ,the courts of Wanganui, Waverley, Patea and Hawera, is one of the shrewdest judges of human nature m the Dominion. • VYhen a'big job comes along. like the recent Harbor Commission at' (Napier, J.S.B. is invariably selected. He has an almost uncanny way of proving to the depths of the most intricate problems or extracting from a witness? the uttermost grain of fact. It is no good trying to twist when 1 Barton takes a turn at crossiexamination. He hailed originally from Australia,' where he learned to play good cricket. He is one of the keenest enthusiasts of the game m Wanganui. In fact, so enthusiastic is he that he has constructed a private pitch at his residence m St. Hill Street, where a number of young players are roped m regularly to practice.' ' Wanganui is very^ proud of . its S.M., who is a humorist, a man of outstanding and a'jolly. good fellow. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH