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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

[Other Institutions and Services]

Medical.

Perkins, Alfred Temple, M.R.C.S., Eng., L.R.C.P., Edin., Physician and Surgeon, Wellington South. Born in 1857 in London, Dr. Perkins was educated at King's College School, and trained at Guy's Hospital, where he studied from 1876 till 1882, when he obtained the degrees of M.R.C.S., Eng., and L.R.C.P., Edin. After a voyage as surgeon on the R.M.S. “Eden” to the West Indies, where page 1507 he was about nine months on station duty, he returned to England as surgeon of the R.M.S. “Nile,” and became assistant to Dr. Sutton, of Smethwick, Birmingham, a post he filled till 1886. Dr. Perkins then came to New Zealand as surgeon on the R.M.S. “Aorangi,” and settled in Patea, where he was surgeon to the Patea Hospital, Government Vaccinator for Patea and Waverley, and surgeon to several Friendly Societies. He went to England with his family in 1895, and returned to Wellington, New Zealand, as surgeon of the R.M.B. “Aotea” in October, 1896, when he started practice in the southern part of the city.

Cottle, Morford (late the Australian Dental Institute), Dentist, 177 Lambton Quay, Wellington, and The Square, Palmerston North. On the 26th of February, 1897, Mr. Alexander Fraser disposed of his interest in the Australian Dental Institute, head office, Wellington (pages 483–4), and the Palmerston North branch (page 1169), to Mr. Cottle, who now conducts the business on his own behalf.

Mr. Robert Evans, Locker of H.M. Customs, Wellington. (See page 1501).

Photo By Mrs. Herrmann. Mr. R. Evans.

Photo By Mrs. Herrmann.
Mr. R. Evans.

Banking.

Mr. Henry Mackenzie, who is referred to on page 510 as General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, resigned that position in February, 1897, and at the time of writing (March, 1897) the office is vacant.

Mr. John Baird Hobart, Accountant of the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, is an Irishman by birth, having been born in Birr, Queen's County. Educated at Rathmaine's College, Dublin, he got an insight into mercantile life in the Old Country. With the first Vesey-Stewart settlers he came to Auckland by the ship “Dover Castle” in 1875, and for three years he travelled through the colonies before settling down. Joining the Bank of New Zealand as a clerk in Auckland in 1879, Mr. Hobart has passed through various grades of the service, having held appointments at the Thames, Coromandel, Hamilton, Wanganui, Christchurch, and elsewhere. He was promoted to the position of assistant accountant in 1887, and four years afterwards to that of accountant, taking up the duties of his office in Wellington in 1892. During the great financial crisis of 1884 in Auckland, Mr. Hobart was employed by the bank to prepare special reports on several of the large estates which at that time went into liquidation.

Insurance.

Mr. J. C. Hanna (pages 523 and 646) was promoted, on the death of Mr. Warwick Weston, to the position of Inspector of the New Zealand Insurance Company, retiring likewise from the position of Secretary of the Metropolitan Permanent Building Society.

Mr. Charles Alfred Ewen, Manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company at Wellington, who is a son of the late Mr. Walter Ewen, of Auckland, was born in 1853 in Birmingham, England. Arriving in the northern city in 1855 with his parents, per ship “Joseph Fletcher” (Captain Foster), he was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, under Mr. Farquhar McRae. After a trip to England in 1870, Mr Ewen entered the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland in 1875, and continued in the service till 1896. He filled the office of agent in various towns in the Colony between 1877 and 1889, when he became assistant manager at Christchurch. With the exception of a break of about 12 months, when he was relieving the manager at Invercargill, he remained in Christchurch until February, 1896, when he was appointed manager of the bank at New Plymouth. On the promotion of Mr. J. C. Hanna to the position of inspector, rendered vacant by the death of the late Mr. Warwick Weston, he was offered and accepted the office he now holds. Mr. Ewen was married in 1883 to a daughter of Mr. Frederick Sutton, late M.H.R. for Napier, and has two daughters.

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Mrs. Francis, Headmistress, Mount Cook Infants' School, Wellington. (See page 377).