NEW MAGISTRATE
AUCKLAND APPOINTMENT MR. S. L. PATERSON ELEVATED TO BENCH Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Mr. S. L. Paterson, assistantCrown Solicitor at Auckland, has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate and will begin duty on February 1. His district has not yet been allocated. Mr. Paterson -was born at Napier, but at an early age went to Christchurch, where his father was an official in the Railway Department. Mr. Paterson was educated at the Addington School and the Christchurch Boys’ High School. On leaving school he Joined the literary staff of the ‘‘Lyttelton Times,” but soon finding journalism distasteful, he began to study law, graduating as LL.B. at Canterbury College in 1916. He then went into camp, and saw service in France with the Second Wellington Battalion. On return from the war, he joined the Auckland legal firm of Nicholson and Gribbin, but later transferred to Jackson, Russell, Tunks and Ostler. Leaving that firm, he went into partnership with Mr. F. E. McKenzie, and on dissolution of that partnership he Joined Mr. V. R. Meredith when he was appointed Crown Solicitor at Auckland. Mr. Paterson has done much prosecuting in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Crown. In 1923 he married Miss Beatrice Brendel, of the staff of the Epsom Girls’ Grammar School.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 1
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