LONG SERVICE WITH LOCAL BODIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 110, 30 July 1927, Page 20

LONG SERVICE WITH LOCAL BODIES

LATE MR. WILLIAM HOGG After 64 years’ residence in Auckland, Mr. William Hogg, one of the best known of local body servants, died this morning at the age of 37. In 1863, Mr., Hogg, who was born in County Armagh, Ireland, came tj Auckland in the War Spirit, the ship which brought out the first Bohemian settlers. Mr. Hogg remembered Shortland Street and High Street as principal thoroughfares in the township. After being employed in Mrs. Harrison’s grocery store at the corner of High Street and Vulcan Lane, he enrolled in the militia and took part in the Maori War. When peace came he became collector at the toll-gates at Newmarket for the Provincial Government. It was while he was keeping a grocery shop in Broadway that he entered local body activities, becoming a member of the Newmarket Road Board and afterwards a borough councillor. He resigned to become town cleric in succession to Mr. W. Binnison, and held the position for 17 years. Buring this ’time he was clerk also to the Epsom Road Board, One Tree Hill Road Board and the Manukau Water Supply Board. He kept the clerkship of the One Tree Hill Road Board until 1926, when, after 31 years’ service, he was the oldest local body servant in Auckland.

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