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GENERAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.DUNEDIN TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Mr. J. ORCHISTON Mr. JAMES GARDINER HALLARD Mr.CHARLES HILL Mr. JOHN ALEXANDER WALKER Mr. CHAHLES EDWARD MAY Mr. ANTHONY WATSON OXLEY, Mr. JOHN HAY Mr. SAMUEL THOMPSON Mr. CHARLES FYNMORE Mr. HENRY SKEY Mr. WILLIAM EDWARD SESSIONS THE DUNEDIN GAOL Mr. SAMFEL CHARLES PIIILLIPS Mr. THOMAS ARTHUR Mr. JOHN MACDONALD. Mr. DAVID WALLACE Mr. WILLIAM ALEXANDER SHAIN Mr. ALEXANDER MORRISON. Mr. HENRY WETHERILT DUNEDIN TELEGRAPH OFFICE, which stands at the junction of High and Rattray Streets. opposite Cargill’s Monument, was erected in 1870 and is a two-story brick building entirely devoted to the work of that department, including the Telephone Exchange. The public office is situate on the ground floor, the Telephone Exchange and other offices on the first floor.
Mr. J. ORCHISTON. Inspector of Telegraphs for Otago District, who is the only surviving son of the late Mr. J. Orchiston. grain merchant of Aberdeen, was born in1857 in that town, and was educated at the public schools in the Clutha district, where, with his parents, he had arrived in January, 1862. Joining the Telegraph Department in January, 1874, as a cadet, he was promoted in the same year to the charge of the Hawera station, and in 1877, was transferred to the construction branch at Wellington. Eighteen months later, Mr. Orchiston was appointed acting sub-inspector of telegraphs for the Wellington district, being transferred subsequently to Auckland as subinspector in charge of that district in 1880, and in 1894 was promoted to his present post in Dunedin. Mr. Orchiston was married in 1883 to the eldest daughter of Judge Von Stunner, and has three sons and two daughters. Mr. JAMES GARDINER HALLARD, Officer-in-Charge of the Dunedin Telegraph Office, was born in Canterbury in 1851 and was educated at the Christchurch Boys High School. He entered the telegraph service in Christchurch as a cadet in 1808, and two years later became postmaster and telegraphist at Waipukurau, North Island. He was transferred to Cromwell, Otago. In 1870, and four years later joined the operating staff in Dunedin. He was appointed assistant oflicer-in-charge at Wellington in 1878, and was transferred to Blenheim in 1880, where he was also made chief postmaster in 1880. Mr. Hallard was transferred to his present post in December, 1805. He has taken a lively interest in cricket and tennis, and was a member of the Marlborougli cricket and tennis clubs. Since settling in Dunedin he has been a member of the Otago tennis club. Mr.CHARLES
HILL. Assistant Officer-in-Charge
of the Dunedin Telegraph Station,
was born in Wellington in 1854. He joined
the Telegraph Department in 1867. and was transferred to Wanganui in
1869. He was afterwards in charge of
Opunake office during
the
time
of the Maori disturbances where he
acted as postmaster and telegraphist;
after
eighteen months’ service he
was transferred to Napier and remained
Mr. JOHN ALEXANDER WALKER, Senior Clerk Dunedin Telegraph Office, was born at Omata, Taranaki, in 1856, and was educated at the late Mr. Crompton’s private school in New Plymouth. He joined the Telegraph Office at Wellington as a cadet in 1872 and was transferred to Auckland in the following year. During the eight years in which he resided in Auckland Mr. Walker was advanced to senior clerk, and was transferred in 1881 to the Wellington office, where he remained till 1880. when he took up his duties in Dunedin. Mr. Walker is a member of the American Order of Oddfellows, having been initiated in Lodge Southern Cross, Wellington. He is a member of Leith Lodge, Dunedin, in which he has occupied all the chairs, and has filled the office of degree master for the Otago district. He is captain of the St. Andrew’s golf club. During his residence in Dunedin he took a prominent part in instituting the post and telegraph officers’ association, and was chairman of the general committee during the maritime strike of 1890. Mr. Walker founded the “Katipo” newspaper, which was first known in New Zealand as the “Post and Telegraph Gazette,” and of which he was editor for two years. He was connected with various debating societies in Wellington, and was at one time secretary of the well-known Union Club in that city, and of which he was elected a life member. He was secretary of the now defunct Dunedin debating society, and is a member of St. John’s Ambulance brigade, and of the Dunedin Medical Staff volunteer corps. He was married in 1883 to Miss Frances Hubble, of Derby, England, and has six sons and one daughter.
Mr. CHAHLES EDWARD MAY, Mechanical Electrician (Siemens Bros.) of the Otago and Southland district of the Telegraph Department, was born in Greenwich, Kent, England, in 1858. He was educated at Cohen’s Glebe House school, Woolwich, and was apprenticed to Messrs. Siemens Bros., electrical engineers at Woolwich, where he remained for eight years. During part of this time, Mr. May was at the Royal Albert docks as assistant electrician to Mr. Shurtz, who was in charge of the first installation of the docks for electric lighting. Mr. May next accepted a twelve months’ engagement with Mr. Hankin Kennedy’s Electric Light Company and the National Telephone company of Glasgow, after completing which term he returned to his former employ. Six months later, he was offered and accepted the appointment he now holds, and soon afterwards embarked for Port Chalmers per ship ••Westmeath,” arriving in 1883. After the destruction of the Wellington Telegraph office and Telephone exchange by fire in 1887, he assisted in the reinstallation. For sixteen years, Mr. May has been interested in the volunteers’ movement, six years in connection with the Royal Arsenal Artillery at Woolwich, and ten years as lieutenant-in-charge of the electrical department of the Dunedin Engineers. He retired in 1896 with the rank of honorary lieutenancy for life. It is worthy of remark that Mr. May’s father was marine engineer to the River Thames board, Port of London, for thirty-five years, and his grandfather was surveyor to the same body for forty years. Mr. May was married in 1881 to a daughter of Inspector Campbell, of the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, and has one son and one daughter.
Mr. ANTHONY WATSON OXLEY, Telegraphist at the Dunedin Telegraph Office, was born in Dunedin in 1860, and was educated at the public school, Waikouati. Mr. Oxley joined the Waikouaiti telegraph office as a junior in 1874, and after two years, was successively at Wellington, Wanganui, and Invercargill; he was appointed to his present post in 1882. He is a member of the Masonic order, attached to Lodge Dunedin Xo. 931, E.C., and is also a member of Leith Lodge No. 4, of the American Order of Oddfellows, in which he has passed through all the chairs. Mr. Oxley is a widower, with one son and one daughter. THE DISTRICT LAND AND SURVEY OFFICE at Dunedin is located in the left wing of the second floor of the Post Office Building, facing Princes and Jetty Streets. The staff in the office consists of twelve officers, including draughtsmen and clerks, besides the chief surveyor, and six officers in the field.
Mr. JOHN HAY, Chief Surveyor of the District Land and Survey Office at Dunedin, was born on the 9th of May, 1848, in Kent, England—son of the late Mr. George Hay, of Hilly Park, South Molyuenx. He arrived at Port Chalmers with his parents in the ship ‘”Ajax,” on the 8th of January in the following year. Educated at East Clutha School, Mr. Hay was brought up to agricultural and pastoral pursuits; he, however, joined the Provincial Survey staff as a cadet in May, 1807. and qualified as a surveyor on the 9tli of November, 1809. In May, 1873, he was appointed district surveyor in the Southland District Survey Department, becoming chief surveyor at Dunedin in January, 1897. As a Mason, he was initiated in the year 1872 in Lodge St. Andrew, No. 432. In 1879 Mr. Hay was married to a daughter of Mr. William Hamlyn, of Wainiatiiku, Southland, and has one daughter and three sons.
Mr. SAMUEL THOMPSON, Chief Draughtsman. District Land and Survey Department, and Examiner of Land Transfer plans, hails from Kinross, Scotland, where he was born in 1842. He was educated in Cleish, and In Edinburgh, came to Port Chalmers per ship “Sevllla” in 1859, and shortly afterwards joined the survey staff of the Otago provincial government. Becoming a qualified surveyor in 1868, Mr. Thompson was engaged for about a year as a contract surveyor for the department. Subsequently, he became assistant surveyor in charge of the Martin’s Bay settlement surveys. Owing to changes in the system of surveys. Mr. Thompson left the service and went to the North Island in 1872. He was appointed assistant surveyor at Wellington, but had to resign owing to ill-health. Returning to Otago he was appointed office-surveyor under the Otago district land and survey department in 1873, and afterwards became land transfer draughtsman, and also chief draughtsman in 1807. Mr. Thompson was married in 187G to a daughter of Mr. D. S. Mackenzie of Dunedin, and has rive sons and five daughters
Mr. CHARLES FYNMORE. Draughtsman, Land and Survey Department, was born in 1850, in Adelaide. South Australia, and was educated in Victoria and Otago, having arrived in the latter Colony in 1863 He is a grandson of the late Colonel James Fynmore of the Royal Marines, who was a midshipman at. the battle of Trafalgar. He entered the land and survey office in Dunedin as a cadet in 1867. and has been draughtsman since 1869. Mr. Fynmore was initiated in the Hand and Heart Lodge of Oddfellows, but is presently unattached. He is an ex-volunteer and is also interested in bowling and a member of the Civil Service club. Mr. Fynmore is married to a daughter of the late Mr. John Lovell—after whom Lovell’s Flat is named, and has a son and two daughters.
Mr. HENRY SKEY, Draughtsman, District Land and Survey Department, and Meteorologist at the Dunedin Observatory, was born in London in 1830. and was educated and brought up to farming in England. Mr. Skey came to Port Chalmers in 1860 per ship “Evening Star,” and after a short experience of bush life and on the goldfields, joined the survey department under the late Mr. J. T. Thomson, as a draughtsman. In l882 Mr. Skey was promoted to chief draughtsman, which position he held for ten years. Since 1865 he has acted as meteorologist at the astronomical observatory formerly located on Roslyn Hill, but now in Leith Valley. Mr. Skey was married in 1866 to a daughter of Mr. A. H. Ross of Dunedin, and has three sons and three daughters
Mr. WILLIAM EDWARD SESSIONS. Chief Clerk, Crown Lands Department, Otago district, has for many years been a prominent Government official in Dunedin. He was born in Essex, England, in 1842. and accompanied his parents to Victoria in 1854, his education being completed at the Scotch College, Melbourne. After having engaged in mining he settled in Dunedin, in 1863, as assistant clerk to the provincial council of Otago, in which capacity he rendered such services that he was several times specially thanked for his faithful work. In 1871, on the retirement of the late Mr. Charles Smith, Mr. Sessions was appointed clerk of the council and librarian, which office he held till the end of 1870. when the abolition of the provinces was finally consummated. During the session of 1875. a memorandum was read by the Speaker complimenting Mr. Sessions on the ability displayed in classifying the papers relating to the proceedings of the Southland provincial council during 1861- 9, and in printing and publishing the same, and a bonus of £100 was voted as a mark of appreciation of his services. On the completion of his duties to the late provincial council. Mr. Sessions was transferred to the Crown Lands Department, as clerk of goldfields’ work; he was also appointed clerk in the warden’s court, receiver of gold revenue and mining registrar at Dunedin, which offices he recently relinquished through pressure of work. He gradually advanced in the service till, in 1886, he was promoted to the office he now holds. OFFICE OF REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES, with which is associated the office of Registrar of Electors for Dunedin City and Caversham, is situated at No. 2 Bond Street, Dunedin. The registrar is Mr. William Joseph Hall, who was appointed deputy-registrar in 1878, and promoted to the positions he now holds in 1890. This office was established in 1848. THE DUNEDIN GAOL is built on a triangular section of land, an acre and three quarters in extent, fronting Stuart, Castle, High, and Gaol Streets: and is very centrally situated, in close proximity to the railway station. On the acute angle of the allotments the local police barracks were very appropriately erected in 1895. The site was first occupied for the purposes of a gaol as far back as 1861, when the older portion of the premises—a two-story stone building with a centre tower—was completed. Two years after its establishment the number of prisoners incarcerated was 134. of whom 120 were males. Additional buildings of wood were afterwards added, bringing up the accommodation to 15O. Some years afterwards considerable alterations were made in the interior arrangements, whereby the sanitary condition of the gaol was greatly improved, at the expense, however, of the accommodation, which was reduced to the previous capacity of l34. A portion of the Artillery barracks at Taiaroa Heads is used as a supplementary gaol, where about 37 prisoners are at present confined. For the year 1896 the average number of prisoners in Dunedin gaol was fifty-nine males and nine females. The greatest number of women imprisoned at any one time since its establishment is recorded as forty-three, by far the largest proportion of criminals having invariably been of the sterner sex. In January. 1895, owing to the need for increased accommodation, a new brick building was commenced on the Castle street frontage. This building will consist of two departments, the administrative, of two stories, and the prison, three stories in height, with cells for fifty-two men and twenty women. At the time of writing (February, 1898), it had not been fully completed or handed over to the gaol authorities. Mr. SAMFEL CHARLES PIIILLIPS, Gaoler of the Dunedin Gaol, was born in 1830 at Heading, Berks. England, where he was educated. He was apprenticed to a tailor in London, but, finding the occupation uncongenial, enlisted in 1853 in the Osmanli Horse Artillery for service with the Turkish Contingent, destined for Scutari, near Constantinople. “When peace was proclaimed in 1856, he returned to London, and afterwards went to Canada. In the following year Mr. Phillips joined the 100th Regiment of Foot, ordered to India to assist in quelling the Mutiny. Peace being declared, he returned with his regiment to England, and later went out to Gibraltar, where he left the army and joined the convict prison service, with which he remained till May, 1875. on the abolition of the department. Again transferred to England. Mr. Phillips was appointed to Pentonvillo prison, ponding a suitable vacancy elsewhere. Within a few mouths he received the appointment of gaoler at Lyttelton. with general supervision over Canterbury gaols, and arrived to take up his duties in May. 1876. While he held this appointment, the splendid bn’ldingsnow in use were erected by prison labour. Continuing at Lyttelton till December, 1882, Mr. Phillips was transferred in that year to the position he now holds at Dunedin. Since his arrival in Otago he has been an active member of Trinity Wesleyan church, of which he is a steward. Mr. Phillips was married in 1864 to a daughter of Mr. R. W. Campiar, of Gibraltar, but previously of Kent, England. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS (DUNEDIN DISTRICT) extend from Clinton to Hakateramea, together with all branch lines, the total length being about 340 miles. The head offices of tile district at Rattray street. Dunedin. comprise a two-story brick building erected opposite to the Dunedin railway station, where the district traffic manager and resident engineer, with their respective staff’s, are located. Mr. THOMAS ARTHUR. District Traffic .Manager for tile Dunedin district of New Zealand railways, was born at Catvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he was educated. Mr. Arthur came to the Bluff per ship “Robert Henderson” in 1865. and within a year of his arrival, entered the railway department in Southland, since which time he has been continuously employed in the service and has at different times occupied various positions from “formation” up to tile important office he now holds. Previous to the opening of through traffic between Invercargill and Dunedin. Mr. Arthur was traffic manager for the Southland district, and when the line was opened by the completion of tile Clinton connection, and merging of tile Dunedin and Invercargill districts, lie became district station master at that important junction. Subsequently he was transferred to Canterbury, and district station master at Ashburton for seven years, from thence he was removed to Dunedin as station-master, and was appointed traffic manager in January, 1885. Mr. JOHN MACDONALD. Traffic Inspector for the Otago section of New Zealand Railways, was born at Elgin in 1861. He arrived in Lyttelton with his parents in 1873 per ship “St. Lawrence.” and was educated at public schools in Canterbury. He entered the railway telegraph office in Christchurch as clerk, and after two years was transferred to Otago. subsequently being removed to Auckland, where he became station-master at Huntley. Mr. Macdonald was promoted in 1807 to the position he now holds. He was married in 1893 to a daughter of Mr. James Hendry, of Dunedin, and has one son.
Mr. DAVID WALLACE, Goods Agent at the Dunedin Railway Station, was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1800, and was educated in his native land. He gained his experience in railway management in the North British railway, which he entered in 1875 as clerk, rising through the various ranks of the service till he became station master. He was appointed in 1890 traffic manager to the New Zealand Midland Railway Company, and came to the Colony per s.s. “Ruapehu.” When the Government took over the company’s line he continued in the same position till February. 1897, when he was transferred to Dunedin to his present appointment. Mr. Wallace was married in 1888 to a daughter of Mr. Thomas Shortreed, of Cloven Forest, near Galashiels, Scotland, and has one son and one daughter. THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT for the Otago. Canterbury and Southland districts is located on the first floor of the Custom House Building, Dunedin. overlooking High, Rattray and Princes Streets, and directly opposite the Cargill monument. The district engineer is supported by two assistant engineers, two draughtsmen, and five inspectors. Mr. WILLIAM ALEXANDER SHAIN. Resident Engineer. Public Works Department. Dunedin. was born in 1858 at Sandhurst. Victoria, and was educated at public schools in Dunedin. Mr. Shain entered the public works department as a cadet at Hokitika in 1874. and became a certificated surveyor in 1882. He was employed in water-race construction and railway work on the West Coast, and also in connection with Greymouth harbour works till 1894. He was promoted to assistant engineer in 1892, was transferred to Hunterville as resident engineer in charge of the North Island main trunk railway, and occupied that position till June. 1897, when he was removed to Dunedin. Mr. Shain was married in 1882 to a daughter of Mr. Maurice Laugan, of Kerry, Ireland, and has two sons and two daughters. inspection of machinery branch.Mr. ALEXANDER MORRISON. R.N.R,, Senior Inspector of Machinery for Otago and Southland, hails from Blairgowrie. Scotland, where he was born in 1852. and was educated at the West End Academy, Dundee. He was apprenticed to Messrs. Urquhart and Lindsay. engineers of the same city, and after completing a term of five years removed to London, whore for two years he gained further experience in different marine workshops. In 1873, Mr. Morrison joined the “White Star” line as sixth engineer, and was for some time engaged in the trade between Liverpool and New York, becoming chief engineer in 1880. He was appointed by the White Star company to supervise the building of the well-known steamships “Arabic” and “Coptic” at the yards of Messrs. Harland and Wolf, Belfast, and on the completion of these vessels, took them from the yards and afterwards sailed in the “Coptic” as chief engineer to .San Francisco, and thence to China, being: two years in that trade. In 1883, he returned in order to take the “Doric” out to New Zealand, and was in that vessel for several voyages. Later he was transferred to the “Coptic,” in which vessel he continued till 189O, when he left the sea and settled in Dunedin. For three years subsequently, Mr. Morrison was chief engineer of I lie Longburn freezing works, when he was appointed inspector of machinery in Otago under Mr. Duncan, now chief inspector of machinery, being promoted to the senior position on that gentleman’s removal to Wellington. Mr. Morrison joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1887; he is also a member of the Masonic Order having been initiated in San Francisco, and is now attached to Lodge Hiram, Dunedin.
Mr. HENRY WETHERILT, Inspector of machinery for the district of Otago, was born in London in 1847 and taken to Constantinople by his parents in 1853, where he was educated, and trained in the Turkish Navy. In 1867, he was promoted to the rank of engineer and appointed to one of H.I.M.’s ironclads then on active service in quelling the Cretan and Montenegrian insurrections. After sixteen years’ service he retired from the Turkish navy and joined the military small arms works, where he continued till 1879, when he resigned and returned to London and entered the Royal carriage department, Woolwich Arsenal; and up to June, 1885, he served as third, second, and chief engineer in the “City,” Monarch,” and “Orient” lines. In October, 1885, he came to New Zealand to manage the Shaw Savill and Albion Company’s freezing ship “Edwin Fox,” which vessel he left at Lyttelton in 1891 and joined Nelson Bros., as inspecting engineer till 1892, when he was engaged as engineer for two years and eight months. On the death of Mr. Mouat, chief inspector of machinery, Mr. Wetherilt was transferred to Dunedin as inspector of machinery for Otago and Southland, engineer-surveyor of steamers, and examiner of engineers. Mr. Wetherilt was married to a daughter of Mr. T. Reay, engineer in the Turkish navy, and has three sons. MINES DEPARTMENT for the Districts of Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, is situate on the first floor of the Government Insurance Buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin. This branch of the public service has been in operation for several years.
Mr. JOHN HAYES, F.S.Sc., Acting-Inspector of Mines in Dunedin, was born at St. Helens, Lancashire, in 1857, and was educated at the Eccleston private commercial school. He studied for his profession as a mining engineer at the mines belonging to the St. Helens Collieries Company, Ltd., and in 1879, became confidential assistant to Mr. B. B. Glover, a well-known Lancashire mining engineer who had charge of the extensive colleries at Haydock. Mr. Glover had also a large private practice as consulting engineer, and this work was entrusted entirely to Mr. Hayes. He was subsequently appointed to the management of a group of collieries in the Cumberland district, employing nearly a thousand persons, of which lie took charge in 1883, and where he remained for six years, during which time the output was very largely increased. Mr. Hayes came to New Zealand via Melbourne in 1890, and for some years had charge of the Hokonui railway and colliery in Southland, being appointed to the position he now holds as inspector of mines in 1897. In 1888, Mr. Hayes was elected a fellow of the society of science, and awarded the gold medal of the society in the following year in recognition of his valuable contributions to mining literature, as well as for his invention of what is now known as the “Hayes’ Mining Level,” an instrument for ascertaining the proper levels in mines. This is a class of work that had not previously been satisfactorily accomplished in steep-mines by other methods. Before coming to the Colony, Mr. Hayes was a prime mover in establishing the National Association of colliery managers in Great Britain, which is limited to holders of first-class certificates, the object of the association being the protection of its members and the mutual advancement of the profession, socially and scientifically. This association has proved very successful and both capitalists and workers have profited greatly by its operations. Mr. Hayes is the author of a short treatise on “Explosions in Coal Mines,” which has recently been issued in pamphlet form by the government printing office, Wellington, as a reprint from the “New Zealand Mines Record.” Mr. Hayes was married in 1883 to a daughter of the late Mr. J. M. Stanfiel, of Manchester, and has four daughters and three sons. |
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