OBITUARY
Mr. Charles B. Mann
Mr. Charles Burgess Mann, formerly stores manager for the Bost and Telegraph Department, Wellington, for several years, died in Wellington on Friday last-at the age of 81. Mr. Mann joined the Government service well over 60 years 'ago and saw the stores department develop from something very humble to a huge organization. He retired from the service in 1922, since when he bad lived in Wellington in retirement. As a young man he was a good athlete and an excellent exponent of Rugby football. There is in Wellington a photograph of (the first Rugby team ever put into the field by the I’oncke club (which in those days played junior football), of which Mr. Mann was a member. With his passing, only two members of that 1883 team remain alive. Thev are Sir James Hutchison, editor of the '“Otago Daily Times,” Dunedin, and Mr. W. McLean, who was formerly connected with an ironmongery firm in Wellington. Mr. Mann leaves one daughter, Mrs. W. M. Nairn, Dannevirke.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 217, 9 June 1943, Page 8
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171OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 217, 9 June 1943, Page 8
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