SOME MASTERTON NOTABILITIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 17, 23 April 1892, Page 423

SOME MASTERTON NOTABILITIES.

THE MEMBER FOR MASTERTON. • R ALEXANDER W. HOGG, M.H.R. for Masterton, is a native of Glasgow, where he was born in 1845. He received a moderate education, leaving school and beginning his career as a worker at the age of twelve. A year later he started with his family for Victoria where for ten years he pursued alternately the occupation of digger, storekeeper, cultivator, and journalist. About fourteen years ago he joined the stall of the Otago Guardian, and besides Mr G. M. Reed, Mr Hogg has been associated with such well-known pressmen as Mr S. Spragg and Mr J. M. Geddes. He has conducted at various periods journals in Dunedin,

Ashburton, and Timaru, and for the last eleven years has been editor and part proprietor of the Wairarapa Star, Weekly Star, and Eketahuna and Pahiatua .Wail. At the last general election Mr Hogg succeeded in capturing the Masterton seat in the Liberal interest. THE MAYOR OF MASTERTON. Mr Chailes Aylmer Pownall, the present Mayor of Masterton, was born in Auckland in July, 1865, and was educated at the state school and Wellington College. Mr Pownall was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1886, and started practice in Masterton in September, 1887. He is Captain of the Ma«terton Ritles, and is a prominent cricketer. As a proof of Mr Pownall’s popularity, he was elected Mayor of Masterton in November of 1890, being then twenty-five years of age, defeating Councillor J. Hessey ; and again at the Mayoral election last year he defeated Councillor E. Feist, showing the appreciation of his ability and good qualities by his fellow townsmen. FATHER MCKENNA. PARISH PRIEST. In all Masterton no more popular man would be found than the redoubtable Wairarapa ‘ rep,’ the Rev. Father McKenna. A fine looking specimen of muscular Christianity, the Rev. Father reminds one somewhat of the famous Father O’Flynn, with whom the popular song has made us so well acquainted. MR R. BROWN. TOWN CLERK. MASTERTON. Mr Richard Brown, Town Clerk of Masterton, was born at Woodhall, Hertfordshire, England, in 1848, and came to New Zealand about seventeen years ago, being appointed to the position he now holds when the borough was formed in September, 1877. THE REV. W. E. PAIGE. The Rev. W. E. Paige, Church of England Rector of Masterton, is a graduate of Oxford University, taking his M. A. degree whilst at Merton College, O.xon. He was for several years in the West Indies, and was also vicar of St. Mark’s, Portsmouth, England. Afterwards the Rev. Mr Paige was for five years at Ashburton, and the like number at Prendleton, in the Christchurch diocese. He was appointed Rector of Masterton in August, 1880. For our portraits of Messrs Hogg, Pownall, and McKenna we are indebted to Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, of Wellington ; for that of the Rev. W. E. Paige, to Mr R. Herrmann, of Wellington ; and for the portrait of Mr Brown to Mr E. Price, of Masterton.