HON. A. T. MAGINNITY.

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 61, 12 March 1918, Page 8

HON. A. T. MAGINNITY.

A Press Association telegram from Nelson announces the death of the Hon. Andrew Thomas Maginnity, at the age of 69.

The late Mr. Maginnity was born in Wellington in 1849, of Irish parentage. His father came to the colony in 1847, and was on the Hospital staff of the 65th Regiment. Mr. Maginnity was educated at the military school and at Toomath's commercial and grammar school in. Wellington. He passed the Civil Service examination in 1868, and at once entered the Treasury ac a junior clerk. In 1873 he was appointed Chief Clerk of the Telegraph Department, and became Assistant Secretai'y in 1876, and in the following year he was promoted to the position of Secretary. For some years he was in charge of the Post and Telegraph Office at Collingwood, and also acted as Clerk o{ tha Wardan'e and Resident Magistrate's Courts there. Resigning from the Civil Service, he commenced practice as a solicitor in 1887, having in the meantime studied law and passed the necessary examinations. In 1898 he was admitted to the Bar. For many years he had been a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, England. The first torpedo corps was formed while he was Secretary of the Telegraph Department; it oonsisted principally of employees of the service, and he was its captain for some time. For about eighteen months he was in command of H Battery of Artillery in Nelson. The late Mr. Maginnity, who was very popular, took a prominent part in public affairs. He was especially interested in educational matters, and up to the time of his death was a member of the. Victoria College .Council. He was called to the Legislative Council on 14th July, 1914. _ The late Mr. John Maginnity, of Wellington, was his elder brother.