LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Messrs Orr Bros notify that their char-a-banc will run to Hokitika Gorge on Sunday, Feb. 26th., leaving Pioneer’s Memorial at 9 a.in. Fares 5s return. Bookings at garage and Liwn or Breeze, hairdressers. Advt.

Mr AV .A. Banks, who has been Clerk of the Magistrate's Court in Christ- | church for fourteen years, will retire; on supeianunation at the end of June, j but will relinquish his duties on March j 31st as lie has been given three months’ j leave before the date of retirement, j He has been in the Justice Department j for thirty-nine years. He entered i,t in j 1883, after lie had served as a junior j teacher under the Westland Education ; Board for four years. He went through j his early training under Mr Joseph i Giles, Warden and Resident Magistrate, who had jurisdiction over the VVestliaml goldfields. A transfer on promotion from the goldfields to Nap- ! ier was followed by further promotion to the Supreme Court office in Christchurch. In 1899 lie went to the position of clerk in charge of the criminal business of the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland. At his own request, lie was •transferred to a similar position in the Alegifi rate’s Court at Christchurch. Two years later, he left Christchurch to lie Clerk of the Court and Mining Registrar at Hokitika, where he was pleased to renew friendships of former years, his boyhood days being spent in Hokitika. Further proI motion came in 1903 in ,a, transfer to | New Plymouth as Cleric of the District Court and the Magistrate’s Court, and j Clerk of the Taranaki and Kgmoiit Li- ' censing Committees. He held these positions for almost five years. Early in 1908, lie was selected to fill a viacanoy on the staff of the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch, and has worked there up to the present time. MiBanks will continue to live in Christchurch, where lie lias spent twenty years of his life.