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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Law Library

Law Library.

Two spacious rooms contain the Law Library, which consists of upwards of 4500 volumes, available for reference by members of the bar. Periodicals of a legal nature are received and in due course bound, and the collection is being continually added to as fresh works are published. The Law Librarian is Mr. F. Harrison. There is ample space in either of the rooms for Banco or other sittings. The concluding sittings of the great Midland Railway Arbitration case were held in one of these apartments for convenience of reference to the authorities. To the casual visitor, not being a member of the learned profession, the rows of calf-bound works strike the mind with a feeling akin to awe because of the amount of wisdom or otherwise which must be enclosed in those ponderous volumes

Mr. Francis Harrison, Librarian Supreme Court Library and Secretary to the Law Society, was born in Worcestershire, England. Coming to New Zealand in 1855 when very young, he was educated in Wellington. For several years he was law clerk to the late Mr. Brandon, solicitor, and afterwards to Mr. Edwards. He was appointed in 1885 to the office he now holds.