T. J. S. O'Halloran

[citation needed] His education began at a private school at Magill, then St Peter's College (of which his father was a founder) as one of its earliest students.

[citation needed] He found employment first at the Treasury Office on 13 April 1853,[2] then joined the National Bank, in 1871 becoming manager of the Strathalbyn branch.

[citation needed] On 1 November 1874 he was appointed stipendiary magistrate; he succeeded B. T. Laurie at Mount Gambier, G. W. Hawkes at Gawler, John Varley at Kapunda, McCulloch at Port Pirie.

[3] In 1887 he was transferred to Wallaroo, whose jurisdiction extended to Southern Yorke's Peninsula, Port Lincoln and Fowler's Bay in the west to Renmark (where he settled a strike by arbitration)[4] and Morgan.

At a gathering at the Cheer-up Hut the late Mr. O'Halloran who, although at the time he had passed his eighty-third year, spent hours in carving for the soldiers, and then waited upon them at the tables.

He was at various times a keen collector of stamps, matchboxes, then all sorts of natural curiosities — shells, snakes, lizards, seaweeds, and beetles, some of which found a home in the museums of Adelaide and Melbourne.