PERSONAL

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

An Invercargill P.A. telegram today annoilnces the death of Sir Robert Anderson, C.M.G., after a lengthy illness. He was managing-director of J. G. Ward and Company. The death oceurred last evening at Wellington of Lady Hall-Jones, widow of Sir William Hall-Jones, who was prominent in the political life of New Zealand for many . years, occupying the Timaru seat, holding the portfolios of Public Works and Marine in the Seddon Ministry, and being New Zealand High Commissioner in London from 1908 to 1912. He was a member of the Legislative Council when he died six years ago. Lady Hall-Jones was Miss Rosalind Lucy Purss, and was born in England 84 years ago. They married in 1875, a year after Sir William's arrival in New Zealand frorn England. Their family eonsists of Mr F. G. HallJones, barrister, of Invercargill, and Governor of Rotary; Mr W. HallJones, Hamilton, an engineer of the Public Works Department; Mrs E. A. Christie, Wellington^ Mrs W. Brown, Wellington; and Miss H. Hall-Jones, of Wellington. Since her husband's death Lady Hall-Jones had lived quietly at her residence in Burnell Avenue, Wellington, and had been an invalid for some time. Guests at the Criterion Hotel last night included: Messrs R. H. Price, R. G. Priestly, C. B. Hall (Christchurch); Miss D. E. Jamieson, Mr A. E. Treadway (Wellington); Mr G. W. Hildebrandt (Nelson). V