Who's Whoand Why

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 110, 30 July 1927, Page 8

Who's Who—and Why

XfR E - V. KaSb Clerk of the g 0 ’ of Representative* educated i„ *• «? t 0" «* a ,% bang articled as a barrister. , t “ forced, through ,1 ness, to discon tins, study. He fr*** tbe Parlian, t ,aff * n 188*. Zi has been in co*ifj n . uuus service Since then.

*V-f r H0.V.4., -I leading Christchurch barrister icho has been au,i dated with some at the most important Xetr Zealand crin. inal trials of th* last few years, hr. fore the war he uas a champion runner and his interest in athletics is still maintained. Ur president of the Caledonian Society.

ho: v. joh. y col lier 1V hose picture of Bernard Shaw was rejected this year by the Royal Academy. r t painted a series of problem pic. t ires, one of the best known, ".i Fallen Idol.” be.

now in the Auckland Art Gallery. He has done some fine portrait work , and his rejec • Hon by the Academy was much ducussed.

THE RT. HOS SIR DOUGLAS HOGG. England's Attor-ney-General, who was severely criticised tchen he introduced the fiercely - discussed Trades Unions Bill. For some years he was a

I “ l sugar-grower in the West Indies, but after service in the Boer War, he settled down to law. Urbanity and logic are wedded in him.

MR. ALBERT COATES One of England's leading orchestral conductors. Although still a young man, he was once conductor of the Imperial Opera of Petrograi. He studied science under Sir Oliver Lodge, but soon

abandoned speculative things for music's sicqet realities.