A Rising Star

NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 4

A Rising Star

THE legal fraternity in Hamilton can muster a total of nearly half a

century, which, on a population basis, must just about : constitute a Dominion record.

Now, you are not asked to consider the why and the wherefore of this phenomenon but merely to turn the telescope on to the constellation and see if you can discern a rising star in the person of Walter J. King. If you can't you're either something of a Lord Nelson or you have an unreliable telescope. , . . . Walter hit Hamilton when that town — pardon-icity in embryo— was on the crest of the post-war wave of hectic and short-lived prosperity; hoisted. his shingle and sat down and waited for clients.

Nowadays the clients mostly do the waiting: in an adjoining- ante-room. This, you will concede, is a pretty considerable achievement in a brief seven years for a young lawyer, who only a year or two before, had discarded a tunic adorned by a brace of pips and a chevron or two and set about the business of Life.

King retains his youth. It's not always an asset for a lawyer. For to the timid litigant it connotes inexperience in the law's dark and devious processes.

But when it is linked to a dominating and virile personality — well, youth will be served. "With this equipment Kingshould go far.