Who’s Who and Why

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 8

Who’s Who and Why

MK J - K iOITj Has been Ui, hin Rail tray Etigmftr Auckland for a- u, three year*. nrst a PPOin(,1 ™ tn hi n „ f.Oikv When the ij! link of the Jfai, Hunk wc* completed. g, J had charge of even -> or aland roil^J

MR. R. t \ Ward The Public Tr.Z • s a young man < or an important poj . He was educated r Auckland Grammar School, and spr ,, eight years tk Lands Department o, lowed by eight years on the legal staff of ti, e j- rw( Colt hockey yachting are hi, rtr , /‘rations.

■S/tt J.IM&S SOBB-IXXMS Rrsigned last mo ntt from the post Chief Justice of tj, Union of Souti Africa, to which hi was appointed i, He entered the Cape Parliament at the age of 19, and teas Attorney - Ge,. real in the lthodes Ministry of He was knighted in 1901.

LORD IRWIN Viceroy of India since 192 J, lias tiff, an ,-lrmji man ami politician. For a year he held the portfolio of culture in Mr. Baldwin's Ministry. The fruit of fci, interest in other things u an excellent book on John Keble.

MR. ERNEST NEW AN One o/ the moil stimulating musical critics in England. Originally intended lor the Civil Service. his health broke do wn and hr went into business at Liverpool, doing musical and literary cork at the same time. He hai published many critical tcorks.

MR. JACOB EPBTEIX A great sculptor whose work ha aroused severs controversies, th last of which fat lowed the unveiling of the W. H. Hudson Memorial i« Hyde Park. It tear he who carved th tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere La chaise Cemetery. He has had manj important commissions.