Let Up At Last

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 6

Let Up At Last

HARD luck! George Cruickshank, S.M., Invercargill, will retire next March. "Why, the old court won't be the same old place. Who will utter such dry comment, such good commonsense and such understanding sympathy as well as "Cruicky."? He has come to be a very real part of Invercargill. For twenty years he has adorned the bench m the southern city. And when we say adorned, we mean it m the literal sense of the word. For all his appreciation of the dignity of the Daw, S.M. Cruickshank has yet to be inclined towards red-tape methods. He believes that the Law is for the protection and benefit of the people and, therefore, be something that the man m the street respects and trusts. It is rumored that the genial, magistrate and Mrs. Cruickshank ai*e making plans for a trip Home and, on their return, settling m Auckland. Invercargill is hoping against hope that this isn't true.