NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.
LORD TREVETHIN RETIRES. ATTORNEY-GENERAL! APPOINTED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 3, 9.20 p.m. London, March 2. Lord Trevethin, Lord Chief Justice of England, has resigned. He will be succeeded by Sir Gordon Hewart, Attorney-General.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Lord Trevethin, who is only two years short of 80, was appointed Chief Justice when Lord Reading went to India as Viceroy. As Mr. Justice Lawrence he sat as a Judge of the High Court from 1904, and prior to that he had a distinguished career at the Bar. Sir Gordon Hewart has been At-torney-General since January, 1919, and before that he was Solicitor-General. He is 51. After a journalistic career in Londpn he turned to the law, and was called to the Bar in 1902, since when his success has been rapid. He was elected M.P. for Leicester in 1913 and joined the Cabinet in Aprl, 1921.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1922, Page 5
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147NEW CHIEF JUSTICE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1922, Page 5
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