THE NEW HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 2 December 1893, Page 4

THE NEW HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

«, The following further sketches of new members' careers are taken from the Christchurch Press : — W. H. MONTGOMERY (ELLKBMERE) is the son of the Hon. W. Montgomery, and was born at Opawa, Christchuroh, in 18GC. He was educated at Christ's College and the Boya' High School, and spent a year at the New Zealand University. In 188-1 he went to England and entered Balliol College at Oxford. Ho studied law for thrtjo years, and took first-olaes honours in jurisprudence. After leaving College he entered a solicitor's office in London and read in Chambers under Mr. Atherley- Jones, M.P., and about that time was called to the English bar. He was at Home six years, and during that time he travelled a great deal* over England and the Continent; studied art painting for a year at London and Paris, intendingat one time to take it up as a profession. The idea, however, he relinquished, and oame out to New Zealand some three years ago. He entered Garriok, Cowlishiw and Fisher's offloe, and while thero became a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. He did not j uraue this avocation, bnt took to farming on laud purchased at Little Eiver by his 'father. In that locality he has taken np his residence, and it was dnring that time he entered upon politics, eventually contesting the Ellesmore seat, in whioh the Little River district is included. W. PBASEB (WAKATIPU). William Frasor, elected to represent Wakatipu, was born in India in 1840, and was educated at Gnernsey and Jersey, and afterwards at the Lycee, Brittany. He left England for Otago in 1858, and a few years afterwards purchased an interest in the Earnalaugh run. which he managed till he recently sold out. He was a member of the Provincial Council for some time. He . was elected a member of the Vincent County Connoil. and held the position of Chairman for ten years. He-is at preßent Chairman of the Central Otago Hospital Board. Thongh classed as an Independent, Mr. Fraser's leanings are in the direction of the Opposition. ROBERT m'nAß (MATAUBA). Mr. Robert M'Nab, who replaces the Hon. G. F. Richardson for Matanra, is the eldest son of the late Alexander M'Nab, of Knapdale station, who came out to Australia m 1810, and to Southland in 1855, where he was afterwards Speaker of the Provincial Conncil. Mr. M'Nab was born in Spnthland in 1861, and was edncated in Invercargill Grammar School, being dux in 1879. He entered the Otago University next year, where he matrionlated and passed the B.A. degree hi 1883, taking the senior mathematical scholarship of the New Zealand -University of that year. In 1884, at the age of 20, he took his M.A. degree, with honours in mathematics and mathematical physics. In 1880 ho entered the office of Messrs. Smith, Chapman, Sinolair, and White, and was admitted to the Bar in 1889. Next year he removed to Invercargill, where he commenced the practice of his profession, which he still carries on, and in the same year he obtained the degree of LL.B. from his old University. Since going to reside in Invercargill he has held command of the G; Battery of Artillery, and is still a prominent rifle shot . He is a strong supporter of our national system of education and is at present a*member of the Southland Education Board and tho Board of Governors of the High Schools. He has devoted considerable time and attention to the establishment of Saturday training classes for teachers and others in Invercargill, and ha 3 kept prominently forward the necessity for training classes for young men and young women. He is a total abstainer, and favours local option with a bare majority. Though a prominent Presbyterian, he is strongly opposed to denominational edncation, and on thoße gronnds opposes any alteration of the present Edncation Act in connection with Bible reading in schools. He is a supporter of the present Government.