OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

. vMR. : -A. : A!. : ;K. DUNCAN. 1 '• / _Mr. ; ;Aritur,, Alexander Keith Duncan, . , poputjv'-P.ublio .'died rather l snd> denlj- at his 1 residence, 22 Nairn Street, ' L"t evp ? ing. ~l)eceased had been; in poor .• "Wth. for." tonio * eonsiderablo 'timo past,' bronchial, troublo, but this • prevent '.him httonding' to' his doticvand his"death was. unexpected. \ . was born in Christehurcli .-hi 18C0. . . Educated 1 at , the Christehurch Boys High. School -and .Grammar School, - no< entered >.tn© iPublic■ Service-of - the , colony-in the Christchurch, Post Office, at tho aje of; sixteen,; after having a, vear's experience ;in tho/office of the "I'ress" ; newspaper, of that city; Mr.'Duncan was soon .afterwards-transferred to- the ac- - conntatirs. department ■ of ; tho General . fi > ?v Q®e®> •in which" ho 1 remained for , •P'ftfen .years, rising: to the position 6f Dookkepcr.. In June,. IS9I, he was transferred to th 9 Public, Trust Office as chief a ?. d .Deputy ; PuWic Trustee > till tho time of-his death. As a member. . of' tho-Hagonio.fraternity, Mr. .Duncan b»longed.;tb i L6dgo '.M r i>terloo; N.Z.C., in .... which.he held the.office of Junior Deacon. I'.or many, years ho took, a lively interest in aquatiai, holding the office of- pecre- ■ - r / °l tho Wellington .Regatta. Club, and subsequently acted for many years on, l - the Committee. Mr. Duncan .was • jointof the'well-known yacht' Maritana. Jn oricket' and.football ho had been pro* rninpnt, and.as a bowler.ho wa> chosen i ; Wellington/in three inter- ,. provincial cricket matches, and was very ■ \?<i ! . w (>s;also'member of tho Wellington Football, iClub. ;. In Jiterary Matters Mr. j ; always . .showed ' K rea ? interest, and'sat as a member of the committeo of tho!-Wellington Athenaeum for.some rears nripr'to its being merged m the Public. Library. ' . • ;A, rofident .of-tho; city, for-so: many f ; Mr.-, Duncan; was " very widolv • known. Ho wasa,member oft fie .Central and; other' q übs, and was greatly liked W Ul who knew him. He was unmarried. Tho funeral will tako, place to-mor-XOxr afternoon. *•