COLONEL ARTHUR HUME.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1918, Page 3

COLONEL ARTHUR HUME.

VARIED EXPERIENCES. Colonel Arthur Hume, formerly Inspector of Prisons and Commissioner of Police, who died at Wellington on Saturday morning, had had great experience under mat)y skies. Bom in the City of Dublin in 1840, and educated at Cheltenham College, Gloucester, he entered the Imperial army in IS*>9 In the mtli Highlanders as an ensign. He accompanied his regiment to India, where lie served till 1871, and then returned to England, obtaining the rank of captain in 1874. For three,* years in the "Old Land" Captain Hume carried out his duties as an officer of the Army. ' n 1874 he was appointed Deputy-Go-vernor of .Millbank Prison, London, and tiiere he gained his first experience of the management of prisons. After twelve months he was transferred to Dartmoor Prison in the sanre capacity, where he remained for three years. He was afterwards Deputy-Governor <• Portland Prison for a like period, and at the close of this term he was promoted to be Governor of Wormwood Scrubs I Prison. London. It was while holding i this position that Captain Hume accepted tiie appointment of Inspector of Prisons for New Zealand, he being selected by Sir .Tulius Vogel, who was then Agent-General for the Colony. Coming to Wellington in 1880, Captain Hume took up liis duties as Inspector of Prison?: in 1888 he became Lieutenant-Col-cue: in the New Zealand M'litia, and was appointed Inspector of Volunteers, v. Inch position he held till 1890, when he was promoted to be- Commissioner of PoHce and Under-Secretary for Defence, ihc duties of which latter office Colonei Hume performed till 1893. He retired from the Public. Service oil superannuu, tion ii; lftOi), and continued to reside in Wellington. In 1804 Colonel Hume was married to Mip.s Macintiro, daughter of the D<pu)y-lnspecior-GeneraJ of Hospitals at .Murray, in the Punjaub. He has 'eft a. widow and five sons, viz., Colonei T. E T] U me, commanding the Wellington Military District; Mr. Kenneth ITu'.re. of the Union Steam Ship Company, Sydney; Mr. Phil Hume, of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., Christehureh; .Major Frank Hume, who is still in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; and Mr. Hubert Hi"hp, of Sydney. Two sons are deadMajor Arthur Hume was killed at 'Gallipoli, and Mr Stanley Hume died in Pal* merston North Borne ten years ago.