NEW CHIEF JUSTICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 603, 4 March 1929, Page 8

NEW CHIEF JUSTICE

MR. MYERS GENERALLY FAVOURED POSSIBLE RIVALS (From Our Resident Reporter) WELLIXGTQX, Saturday* General opinion in tlie legal profession in Wellington supports the views of those practitioners who consider that Mr. Michael Myers, K.C„ will be the next Chief Justice. The only possible rivals of Mr. Myers for the post are Sir John Findlay and Mr. A. Gray, K.C., president of the Xew Zealand Law Society, and either could hold the Chief Justiceship for only a few years because of the statutory retiring age of 72. Mr. Gray, who, it is admitted, would make an excellent Chief Justice, is now 69 years old and for this reason even those who would favour his appointment feel that a younger man should be preferred. The legal qualifications of Mr. Myers are high. He now practises in Wellington as a barrister, having quitted the firm of Bell, Gully, Myers and O’Leary shortly before he took silk—this action being necessary because of the Statute which prohibits the appointment of any King’s Counsel who are members of firms of practising solicitors—and he has been senior counsel for the Government in big actions for years past.