OBITUARY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 392, 18 May 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY

DR. HOCKEN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Dr. Hoeken, who has been intimately associated with the progress of Dunedin for nearly half a century, died tonight at the age of seventy-four years. He had been in ill-health for several months, and his condition was more or •less critical for some weeks. He settled in Dunedin in 1802. In addition to filling the position of Coroner for twenty-two years he acted as surgeon for a number of public institutions for many years, and was the first lecturer on surgery at the Otago University. In 1883 he was appointed a life member of the University Council, and >on the retirement of Mr. Justice Williams from the chancellorship this year, deceased succeeded Mr. Jas. Al'len as vice-chancellor. He took very keen interest in the early history of the colonies, and went to a great deal of expense to collect maps, ■manuscripts, plans, papers, etc.," relating to the early days. These he recently ppresented. to the people of the Dominion. The "Hoeken Wing," in wihich they are housed, was recently opened by Lord Plunket. Another notable memorial of his industry and public spirit is his bibliography of New Zealand, upon which he was engaged for many years.