NOTABLE’S DEATH
S. AFRICAN FINANCE MINISTER. WAS FRIEND OF KING EDWARD. CAPETOWN, October 10. Mr H. C. Hull, the first. Minister for Finance of the South African • Union, ! and a great personal friend of the late King Edward, is dead. Mr Hull was born in 1860. He be- ' came a solicitor, and was in practice in Kimberley (the diamond field town) before the discovery of gold at Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, to which latter place he forthwith moved. One of the members of the Reform Committee, he was, in consequence of the Jameson raid, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, and ordered to pay a fine of £2OOO. As a member of the South African Light Horse in the Boer War, he was in the relief of Wepener. After the peace of Vereeniging, Mr Hull went into politics. He represented the Transvaal in the Convention whidli drafted the Union Constitution, and then went to England to watch the passage of the Bill through the British Parliament.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 6
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163NOTABLE’S DEATH Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 6
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