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 o 88 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Mr.j. HAngas for the best lOO bushels of wheat. The conditions were that the exhibitor must for three years win the champion prize for the best loo bushels of wheat, each of a different season's growth. Mr. Angas is a life member of the Royal Ai^ricultural Society of England, the Shorthorn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Hereford Herd-Book Society, and of the New South Wales, Victorian, and South Australian Royal Agricultural Societies. He is also a life member of the Royal Colonial Institute in London. Mr. Angas has had a creditable Parliamentary career. Though he has not been in the arena so long as many other old colonists, he has yet very materially influenced legislation. He represented the District of Barossa in the House of Assembly for five years {187 1-5), and was returned at the head of the poll on two occasions. He entered the Legislative Council in 1886, and represented the City and Central District until a year or two ago. Although asked to stand again for the same electorate, he declined the honor. By his great e.xperience in local affairs, his mature judgment, and commercial ability, he was able to largely influence political measures that were submitted to the consideration of the Council. His industrial and political activities form only two sides of the character of Mr. J. H. Angas. He has been the excellent son of an excellent father; and whether in his grasp of essentials in commercial affairs, or in that more beautiful side which leans to philanthropy, he has followed closely in the paternal footsteps. He is one of the most charitably-inclined men in South Australia. Monuments of his liberality exist in the metropolis which are as creditable to him as they are advantageous to the people. In 1878 he founded the Angas PLngineering Scholarship at the Adelaide University, and in 1884 gave ^6,000 as an endowment for a Chair of Chemistry in connection with that institution. He founded the Angas Engineering Exhibition as well. Mr. Angas was one of the inaugurators of the Bushmen's Club, and assisted it liberally with donations. He also took an interest in, and was one of the committee of, the Sailors' Home at Port Adelaide. The Angas Buildings at the Children's Hospital in Poole Street, North Adelaide, were erected at his cost, and he also built a wing to the Home for Incurables and an addition to the Semaphore Convalescent Hospital. Mr. Angas largely assisted in establishing the Hope Lodge, the Inebriates' Retreat, and Missionary Training Homes at Belair ; the Angas College, Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide ; and the Young Men's Christian Association in Adelaide. He continues to pay the expenses of the missionary in connection with the Hindmarsh and Bowden Town Mission founded by his father, and has been a large contributor to Dr. Barnardo's Homes and other charitable and industrial institutions for a quarter of a century. The London Missionary Society, China Inland Mission, Zambesi Industrial Mission, and various centres of missionary and school enterprise in India and Syria have his liberal support. He is President of the British and Eoreign Sailors' Society, Vice-President of the British and Foreign Bible Society in England, and President of the South Australian Auxiliary. In .short, he is connected with nearly all the local benevolent and charitable institutions; while it is said of hjn that no one knows the extent of his private charities. Reckoning all things up together, it may truly be said that South Australia does not posse.ss a m(^re influential and useful colonist than John Howard Angas.