JOSIAH ALBERT HANAN

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 6

JOSIAH ALBERT HANAN

II Pleader Once— Pleader Always ][ ■S 5 ' . ■' • ■' ■ : ■ . ' ■"■-"=«

,1= , • ■ ; -. • : _ .- / ■ . . • ■ ■ . ■ • fill . . : . .- ; . , ■ • ■ ■•. . ll ll [TEREWITH the Hon. Josiah Albert Hanan, M.L.C., who has || H Jrl been everything m politics—^except a trapeze artist. He §§ ii has always refused, to discard the revered and perhaps || II somewhat tattered garment of , Liberalism. ;; _ ; H. |1 During his quarter of a century as representative for Inver- |i is cargill, he more than demonstrated his loyalty to the southern H I district, and his ascent to the. Rest- in -Peace Department— the ||. 1 Legislative Council— came after a strenuous term of Parliamen- || i As barrister and solicitor and the legal man who pleaded §1 1 for the notorious Minnie Dean and Kebwn back m 1899, the Hon. H I "Joe" always remained-rin a sense— a pleader. Parliament was || 11 always his court and • hon. members his — sometimes weary— - - ||, II JUry *Minister of Education m the McKenzie Government and || V* holder of other portfolios, as w v ell as acting Attorney- General || ii at one stage, J.A.H. has been on enough important committees || U and Commissions to keep him always busy.. . , . , . ' . .. 1| 1§ Shakespearean student, he was never m the habit of dis- 3= Ji playing theatricals m the House. Always keeps cool and keeps || Ji his hair on— although, just quietly, it is rumored that he can y ij take it off if he wants to. . , . • .:. jj lftiiiiMiii«Miiiii«iiniiPniiiiiiw^^jjj]j]j^^j]jj]||{J^ .