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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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JUDICIARY

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Chief Justices of New Zealand

Sir William Martin – January 1842 to June 1857, died 1880; Sir George Alfred Arney – March 1858 to March 1875, died 1883; Sir James Prendergast – April 1875 to May 1899, died 1921; Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stout – June 1899 to January 1926, died 1930; Sir Charles Perrin Skerrett – February 1926 to February 1929, died 1929; Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers – May 1929 to August 1946, died 1950; Rt. Hon. Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary – August 1946 to October 1953, died 1953; Rt. Hon. Sir Harold Barrowclough – November 1953-.

by Ronald Jones, Journalist and Script Writer, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, Wellington.