COHEN'S MARK

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

COHEN'S MARK

NOW on the border-line -of octo- " genarianism, but vigorous despite his years, Mark Cohen can be seen any day when, the Legislative Council is sitting, hobbling along, on his stick m the direction of the imposing. Parliament buildings. . ■;..'■..... Times are, too, -when the country's business ;is not under consideration that he wends his way into the "House of Lords" to have a quiet read. ,' At an early age he left the hub of England, his. birthplace, with his parents for Victoria. Arriving *m Dunedin when it was little more . than a village,, he commenced to make a name, for himself. . " ' '' "i 'I ' '",:' [. .' 'V^~;X .. Politics uhd law always - .interested* '/ him, and It was Otagb TJniv'ersity that "- gave hlni the foundation for the knowledge which m later life fitted him as a tawmakexi of the country. v As a writer Cohen knows a thing or .two, having traversed the whole gamut of journalism. Along the inky way he toiled from a cub reporter to the:editor's chair. ■ VIt was Mark Cohen who was the first to urge the munlcipalisatlon of tram services, seeing m this idea a public utility when properly handled; He it was, too, who "barracked" for superannuation for the little ladies m blue and white who staff our hospitals