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SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Referring to the payment® to the Chief Justice for service on commissions the "Australasian." says:— Sir Robert Stout's reputation stands high, and he is on© of the last men to be suspected of subservience. Nevertheless it is indisputable that a judge ought to have quitted the bench before/lie is eligible to receive monetary rewards of that magnitude from the Government of the day. In Victoria, Supreme Court judgeis have served repeatedly and readily as Royal OcflMnissioinis, but without any fee being added to tlheir regular emoluments. Mar Justice TT|igjgin»botiham undertook, as a labour of love 1 , the arduous work of consolidating our statute "law, and judges who succeeded Mm have shown themselves wuEng to make similar sacrifices. But the conditions on which, these services were given and accepted cannot be safely ' varied.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 4

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SIR ROBERT STOUT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 4

SIR ROBERT STOUT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 4

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