OBITUARY
MR. O. O. GRAHAM. (By Teleuraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, December 27. Jlr. C. C. Graham, cx-Official Assignee and Stipendiary Magistrate, died this afternoon. He represented Oamaru in tlio House of Representatives from 1869 till 1872. Charles Christie Graham was one of the very early colonists ol New Zealand, sud ho lias in his iong term of residence in the Dominion rilled many and important .positions, lie was' born at Coupar, Fife, Scotland, in 1835, and w#s educated at -Madras College, St. Andrew's, and Edinburgh University. Ho came out to Melbourne in 1805, and in 1566 came to New- Zealand, having in tin? meantime married the daughter of Major-General Thomas Webster, of Fifeshire, Scotland. He settled- in Ctago, and in lStiO was elccled a member of tho Council of tho University of Otago, having previously been mado a Justice of tho Peace of No v Zealand, in 1870 he was clected a metnbsr of the House of Representatives for Oamaru. About this timo Mr. Graham removed his home to Wellington, and in 1872 lie was elected a .member of the_ Wellington Provincial Council, of which he was made Chairman of Committees. In tho same year ho became a member of the Wellington Education Board, and was afterwards chairman for a few years of that body. In 1877 Mr. Graham left for a time the arena of general politics, and entered the service of the Wellington City Council as Town Cleric. This office he vacated some years later, and in 1882 he was appointed Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, and in 1889 was promoted to the magistracy. Shortly after this his association with Wellington ceased, and, ho removed to Duiiedin, where he occupied the position of Magistrate for many_ years, and of Coroner up till the time of his death. Mr. Grabam was a man who in his official life made t-jany friends and few enemies. Ho was clcsely connected with tljo Anglican Church, and since 1901 was Chancellor of the Diocese of Dunedin. ■
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2654, 28 December 1915, Page 8
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331OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2654, 28 December 1915, Page 8
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