BIOGRAPHIES OF NEW MEMBERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXII, Issue 269, 15 November 1928, Page 6

BIOGRAPHIES OF NEW MEMBERS.

REV. CLYDE CARR.

Express Special Service.

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 15. The Rev. Clyde Carr, tbe Labor candidafe for tiro Timaru seat, was l-crn in Auckland, and fts, a sun oi tbe Rev. Tbomas Goodwill Carr. He neceived his education at primary schools, Nelson Oollege, and the New Z ea land University, studying in Auckland, Wellington, and Oanterbury Colleges. Ro was a prizeina,n in English. He had five years' banking and commercial experie.nce. relinqiii shing busi ness lilo in order to enter tlie Congregatioual m.inistry. Mr Carr was ordained in 19l u and ministered in Eiii, Auckland, Wellington. and C'hri'stchu reh ehurches. He is a late cnairman of the Auckland and Canterbury dis-trict-s of tlie ClongrcgationaJ Union of New Zealand. Mr Oarr bas takou a, keeu interest in pnblic affaiTs in Cbristchureli, and yvas the clxairmnn of committces for Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P., in 1922. and Labor momber for tbe C'bristchu reh. Oity Oo'Uneil and tbe North Canterburv llospital Board since 1923. H e is tbe cbairman of tbie Reseryes, Abattoirs, Markets, Cemeteries. Idbraries, cmrd Milk Committees of tbe OhrLstchur clt Oity Cbuncil. He was nominated for Kaiapoi, Riccarton, and Ellesmere in tbe Labor Pai'ty's in t eresis in 1925. Mr Carr is also known as a, journalist and autbor, and latC' entertaimer and radio aunouncer for Station 3 Y A . ■ MR R. W. HAWHvE. ]Mr R. Wt. f law ko. the neiv Mem ber for Kaiapoi urider tbe banner of tbe United Party, is a poultry and fruit farmer bv oceupatrou. Ke first eutered public life thirty years ago as a lnember aud latcr chairuiian of tbe Papanui S.cbool Cbmm.ittee. Ho has been a ineinber of the Wa iuiairi Connty Oouncil for seventeen years, during two of whicji lie AvaB chairman. Later he was ma.de a J.r. He lias been a directpr of ihe Canterbury Co-op. Poultry Proclueers, Ltd., for tbe past six years. and was a foundation member of fbc -Utility Poultry C'lul). Lad „yeai be represented New Zealand at a. world eonfcrenee of poultiymen held at Oi tawa 'MR A, A. McLACnr AN. Bom in 1898 in the Ellesmere dis-trk-t, Mr A. A. M.cL;u:ldan is tbe slxtli son of Mr and Mrs Archibaki IMeL-aeblan, old residents of the distri.ct, and a grandson of the late Mr dobn MoLiachlan, for some years mLiberal M P. for Ashburton. He was oduoated at tbe Doyleston and Leeston public schools, leavirig tbe hrtter at the age of 12 to enter the Christchurch Boys' High Hchool as a Junior Hcholarshi]> holder. two years latcr obtaining a Benio r and in, 1916 ebtering Canterbury Colioge after a distinguisbed all-round oareer at tbe High School. I fe graduatod B.A. in 1919 whilo a master at Ihe Whanganui College, where he was a. fifth and sixth form bingitage innster and sjtorts and cadet oflicer, and In 1920 returnod to, aceept a position 011 the stnff of liis old school, where he continued to study the LL.B. course, and in addition to taking a prominent paft in nll school activitios and the: athletic aud social entertainmenl j?i;d8* of Ihe 11 Ti iyerdty Iifes ln

coached sevteral students for matriculation and other examinatioms, and conducted cvening . classes at the Technical College. In 1923 he was admitted as a solicitor oi the Supreme Court. commencing praotioe on his own aocount at Christchurch, and in that year was married to a daughter of the late Mr A. F. Smitli, formerly of Cashmere and Ashburton. I11 1924, with iive or six others, he forip.ed the original Open-Air B'chools Council, and was for some time a member of the Cashmere School Oommittee and the Progress Leaguo. fn 1925 he grndu.at.ecl LL.B., and was adrnittecCas a barrister, and early ncquired soni.e reputation as a pleader in the Supreme Court. At present lie is tlie senior partuer in the well-knoiyn legal firm of McLachlan, Atack and. TI >11 , and li.as conti nued to take a very actiro part ni ed noa i iona! matters, in horticulture and ngricultn.ro, and is a keeu amateur gardoner and .connoisseur regarding, the natur'al flora of the Dominion. Mr fMcLnclilan and his wife have two ehildi'cn—-a daughter aged four and a son (Johq) aged 2] .