APPOINTMENT OF NEW MAGISTRATE ANNOUNCED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18639, 17 December 1928, Page 5

APPOINTMENT OF NEW MAGISTRATE ANNOUNCED.

Mr T. B. M’Neil, of Hastings, who has been promoted to the Magistracy, and is to take up his duties at Wellington, was born in Invercargill, where his father, the late Mr T. B. M’Neil, practised as a civil engineer. He was educated in Dunedin, and, as a youth, was engaged in the firm of Messrs Bathgate and Woodhouse, barristers and solicitors, of Dunedin, and, later, was associated with the late Sir John Hosking whilst he was practising in Dunedin. In 1904, at Dunedin, he was admitted as a solicitor by the late Sir Josh via Williams, and, at the end of 1905. he joined Mr E. C. Cutten, now Senior Stipendiary Magistrate at Auckland, in his practice at Naseby. On Mr Cutten’s appointment to the Magistracy in 1907, Mr M’Neil acquired his practice. Whilst in Naseby Mr M’Neil was actively interested in public affairs until he left there to go to Hastings in 1916. In Hastings he assumed the management of Messrs Cotterill and Humphries’s local branch, and continued in that capacity until 1920, when, with his partner, Mr F. P. Kelly, he took over the Hastings practice of that firm, under the style of Kelly and M’Neil, an association which has been carried on up to the present.