Fred Hall-Jones

Frederick George Hall-Jones OBE (4 July 1891 – 28 January 1982) was a New Zealand lawyer, historian and community leader.

Hall-Jones, c. 1911

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 (née Purss).^[1]

He took over the legal practice of R. H. Rattray at Invercargill in 1917, it later being known as Hall-Jones & Sons.^[2] At the 1938 general election he stood as the National Party candidate for the seat of Invercargill, but lost to Labour's William Denham.^[3]

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.^[4] His son, John Hall-Jones, was an otolaryngologist (i.e. a doctor who specialised in the ear, nose, and throat or ENT region), author and historian of southern New Zealand.^[5]

Selected works

• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1943). King of the Bluff. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1944). Kelly of Inverkelly. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.
• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1945). Historical Southland. Invercargill: H. & J. Smith.
• Hall-Jones, F.G. (1946). Invercargill Pioneers. Invercargill: Southland Historical Committee.