Fred Hall-Jones
Frederick George Hall-Jones was a New Zealand lawyer, historian and community leader.Biography
Hall-Jones was born in Scarborough just south of Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, on 4 July 1891, the son of William Hall-Jones and Rosalind Lucy Hall-Jones.
He took over the legal practice of R. H. Rattray at Invercargill in 1917, it later being known as Hall-Jones & Sons. At the 1938 general election he stood as the National Party candidate for the seat of, but lost to Labour's William Denham.
Hall-Jones was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services in community affairs and as an historian in Southland. His son, John Hall-Jones, was an otolaryngologist, author and historian of southern New Zealand.Selected works
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