Timber Man

NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 4

Timber Man

WHEN you shake hands with Charlie McCully, you' feel the grip of a dyed-in-the-wool sjbort. Charlie's chief interest m life is timber. He spent many . years m hard work, studying the business, and has "got the wood" on most people when it comes to a talk' on timber. As a monument to his efforts, he is now head ■of one of the biggest trading firms m the South Island. . » The present generation knows Charlie as a popular administrator of sport, his chief hobbies being. Rugby and athletics. But there was a time when he was a force to be reckoned with as an active player, particularly on the hockey field. He also won his Canterbury Rugby cap during a northern tour of the red and black representatives, y '•'.■-..•• Charlie's latest hobby is politics, and he let Ted Howard, M.P. for Christchurch South, know .that on the hustings field he is also a force to bp reckoned with.