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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 644, 23 December 1932, Page 6

ALDERMAN HAGON, the Reform nominee for Sydney’s mayoralty, is an interesting and, in some ways, a remarkable figure. He was born in Hobart, and went to Sydney fifty-seven years ago to start in business as a tailor. He is still in business on the same spot in King Street, but the little one-room rented shop has grown to a large freehold, with 150 employees, and the new Lord Mayor controls one of the most efficient and successful commercial enterprises in the city. lie has been a member of the City Council for nearly twenty years, and twice he narrowly escaped the honour and responsibility of the Mayoral office. The only obvious objection to Lord Mayor 11 agon is his age—he is seventyseven years old. But as one of his friends has said, he has only one hobby—“ keeping young ” —and he certainly seems endowed with an amount of vigour and enthusiasm that would be creditable in a man roany years his junior. “ Keep young is his motto. He believes in Sydney; he has no political prejudices and few enemies; and even Alderman Garden has paid him public compliments for his generous treatment of his employees. Now, though seventy-seven years old, he has resigned control of his business interests to his son, and proposes to devote himself with all his strength to the improvement of this great city and the promotion of the people’s welfare,