OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR. E. J. ABBEY JONES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, This Day. The death has occurred of Mr. E. J. Abbey Jones, managing director of the "Southland Daily News," following a brief illness.

The late Mr. Jones, who was one of the most prominent and popular

figures in the New Zealand newspaper world, was a son of the late Mr. Joseph Jones, and was born in Christchurch in 1870. He received his education at the Timaru Boys' High School, and later became an associate registered accountant of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. In 1908 he married Miss Millicent Potter, daughter of the late Mr. Alexander Potter. In 1896 he was appointed works manager of the Stockowners' Meat Company of New South Wales, and in 1902 manager of H. House and Co., Ltd. In 1906 he became manager of the "Oamaru Mail," and three years later he was appointed general manager of the "Southland Daily News." He was a delegate to the Imperial Press Conference at Ottawa in 1920, and was a director of the United Press Association, having been chairman in 1930. He was also chairman of the Southland Guarantee Co., Ltd. He served with the second New South Wales contingent in the South African War.