Chief Justice Passes

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 1

Chief Justice Passes

ON the high ,seas recently, bound for other climes m search of renewed health, there passed away' one of the ' most out Istanding men of Law this country has produced. Sir Charles Perrin.Skerrett, K.C. and. Chief Justice of New Zealand at last found the odds too' much' in his struggle against the ills of the flesh. ' . ' „ < .Throughout the fifty years of striving from a clerk's stool m the Wellington Magistrate's Court to the Chjef Justiceship, his career has been marked by many .milestones of notable events., . . •. ■ .. ■ , ■ ; •-.'.'■. .'• "'....'.' : '. Something of an intellectual genius, his broad minded and, impartial dealings m the^ high courts mad.c him admired by all. As a barrister his natural eloquence, without '. any trimmings, made him one of the ablest advocates who ever addressed,, a jury. ' • ■■..■•'■' V • : .."';:" • . - _ His able, report compiled as a result of his work on, the now historic Samoan Commission was typical' of the map. -A keen sportsman, the late, Sir Charles was on the eve of. a fishi ng and ' game- hunting tour when he 'was stricken with the illness which has finally culminated m his .death. ;