MAN OF HONOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 733, 5 August 1929, Page 8

MAN OF HONOUR

TRIBUTES TO LATE to C. F. BUDDLE SUPREME COURT GATHER^ An eloquent tribute to the memory # the late Mr. C. K. Buddie, as a who brought honour to the legal fession in Auckland, was paid by B- r v and Bar in the Supreme Court morning. The ceremony was strikingly sive, Mr. Justice Herdman and jj* Justice Ostler, and a large assembling of the legaL fraternity listening bowed heads to the references to » late colleague. Mr. F. L. G. West, president of Auckland Law Society, described ju Buddie as one of a generation of Zealand-born lawyers. Their late oo« league had been admitted to the Barn 18 SI and had practised in the City with the exception of a year or while in Wellington, for 4S years, ju one time deceased had joined his bra. ther, who was then associated Sir Frederick Whittaker aag Thomas Russell, who were both Cabinet Ministers at the time. On the death of Mr. Thomas Buddie; Mr. C. F. Buddie became head of the firm of Buddie and Company. though suffering from illness in recent years, the late Mr. Buddie had continued active practice and bad i*. mained an esteemed and capable adviser to many large financial and com. mercial institutions, as well as the con. fidant of many families. The late Mr. Buddie was by nature a retiring and extremely modest and the publicity of public life had little attraction for him. In hh youth, Mr. Buddie had been a keen athlete, and a devotee of polo. He had devoted his later life entirely to his profession, in which he had been a frank, upright and courageous man. REFERENCE FROM BENCH “It is always a. melancholy experience to take part in an assemblage of this kind,” said Sir Alexander serdman, “but it is only fitting \re should meet and pay our respect to the memory of one, who, over a long period of years, was a safe and sound adviser of so many residents of the City of Auckland. I had not the privilege of knowing the late Mr. Buddls well, but I knew of him. If, however, I wished for proof of his work. I have it in the gallery of Auckland lawyers who worked with him and who are well able to form a correct estimate of his services to the public. During his lifetime Auckland grew from a village to a populous city. He witnessed many changes. He saw lawyers come and go, and watched judges take and leave office. He knew the law as it was 40 years ago. and as it is today. Through, out the changes that have taken place the name of his firm always stood for what was strictly honourable and efficient. One laments the fact that the ranks of the old-time lawyers are every year becoming thinner.” His Honour added that his colleague, Mr. Justice Ostler, j.ined him in expressing regret that the profession should have lost so worthy a member as Mr. Buddie, and they associated themselves in expressing sincere sympathy with the members of | the family who were left to mourn their loss.