LEFT THE BEATEN TRACK

NZ Truth, Issue 1286, 31 July 1930, Page 4

LEFT THE BEATEN TRACK

XC. AEKINS, or plain "Ken." as • he is popularly known m the Auckland legal world, has added yet one more, to the number of those who have left the beaten track of mediocrity m an effort to build up a future for themselves. His practice is, at the moment, only a month or six weeks old, but "Ken." has great hopes of a rapid and lucrative expansion. At the age of 21 he found hintself installed as Deputy Commissioner of Police m the then newly - captured territory of Samoa. He left New Zealand In 1914 with the batch of men who collared the erstwhile German possession. H e was m France m '17 and *18 till a bad gas attack on the Ypres sector did him m for good as far as the war was concerned. A long legal career has given him any amount of experience. For seven years he was a Judge's Associate, m which capacity he must have gleaned an excellent knowledge of the ins and outs of his profession, and m 1924 he served as secretary on the Taxation Committee that inquired into land and income tax.