O.C. MAZENGARB, LIMB OF THE LAW

NZ Truth, Issue 1043, 21 November 1925, Page 6

O. C. MAZENGARB, LIMB OF THE LAW

BUSTLING to the Court, a bundle of briefs under his arm, and full of business, behold, these bright spring- mornings, Lawyer O. C. Mazengarb, of Wellington. In student days he was a long-distance runner of some distinction, and annexed several New Zealand and Otago 'Varsity championships around the years 1910-13. ' It seems that the tenacity and wind developed m those days have not deserted him now, "for c'en though vanquished he can argue still." Mazengarb has. a tenacity all his own. It cannot he said that he never lost a case, but never did he lose a case iti which he didn't die fighting. In his little keen blue eyes there is always the joy of battle m the midst of the hardest legal campaign. It is not remarkable, then, that, m selecting a character from history for the subject of his address m the year he carried off the Plunket medal for oratory at Victoria College, he chose that restless and picturesque figure from Irish history, Dan O'Connell, the famous orator, who, m very truth, did die fighting m the cause he espoused, and whose memory is evergreen m Catholic Ireland. The Irish temperament and genius have provided many figures, famous themselves for oratory, who have m turn kindled budding legal orators to eloquent speech. Cases m point m Wellington are Plunket medal-winners O'Leary and Leicester. The former discoursed on Curran, the latter on Kettle. " ..