Musical Mayor

NZ Truth, Issue 1215, 14 March 1929, Page 6

Musical Mayor

•THOUGH A. J. Graham had more I than his- fair ; share of optimism

and ambition m his grip when he deserted dour Dunedin to take up a. medicinal apprenticeship m Palmerston North over thirty years ago, he did not anticipate for one

anoment, even if he did have aspirations to public office, that after several years of Avholehearted public service on the Borough Council he wou 1 d be 1 chosen by the ratepayers to act as their Mayor just , two years ago.

Medicine Is A. J. Graham's business, and m addition to being' an excellent analytical chemist he has undoubted managerial ability, and it is these two combined facts that have been 'responsible, for his success m business. Music, the greatest of the Muses, supplies Graham with the jdi do vivre, and makes his life more than a mere succession of mails arid meals. In his younger days Graham blew the big bassoon m the Palmerston North Orchestral Society, but he now brandishes the conductor's baton.