NEW KING’S COUNSEL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18545, 16 April 1930, Page 9

NEW KING’S COUNSEL.

MR A. C. HANLON. Mr Alfred Charles Hanlon, at the age of 16 years, entered the office of Mr J. A. D. Adams as an articled clerk. Having served for five years and passed the necessary examinations he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by the late Mr Justice Williams in December, 1888. In the following year he commenced practice on his own account, and at once entered upon a career, principally as a court advocate, that has kept his name in the forefront of the legal profession in the Dominion. For several years Mr Hanlon filled the office of president of the Dunedin Jockey Club. He is an ex-president of the Otago Rugby Football Union and the Grange Cricket Club, and formerly held office as a vice-president of the Otago Cricket Association, the Alhambra Football Club, and the Dunedin Amateur Boating Club. For many years he was actively identified with the affairs of the Otago Yacht and Motor Boat Association and the Otago Yacht and Motor Boat Club, being an ex-president of the former and an excommodore of the latter. He was formerly a prominent member of tho Dunedin Shikespeare Club.