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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

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Law and justice are administered in Auckland by the Supreme Court and the Magistrate's Court, there being now no District Court in the provincial district. Mr. Justice Conolly, who presides over the Supreme Court, resides in Auckland, and goes on circuit periodically to New Plymouth and Gisborne. Registrars of the Supreme Court are located at Auckland, New Plymouth, and Gisborne. Seven Stipendiary Magistrates preside over the various Courts of the province, and three of them are also Wardens of Goldfields. Bankrupt estates are administered by an Official Assignee, Mr. John Lawson, and his deputies at New Plymouth, Hawera, and Gisborne. Auckland has from the first been an important legal centre. For many years it was the home of the colony's Chief Justice, and though the profession suffered heavily by Auckland's loss of the seat of Government, and more recently by the removal of the head offices of several banks and insurance companies, the volume of legal business has been a noteworthy factor. Of men eminent in the legal profession, Auckland has produced a goodly number. Some of them are still alive, but many have passed from the scene of their activities; for example, Judge Gillies, Sir Frederick Whitaker, the Hon. John Sheehan, and Messrs J. B. Russell, Andrew Beveridge, Edwin Hesketh, E. A. Mackenzie, and E. T. Dufaur.