OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 57, 9 March 1931, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR. BOBERT E. HAYES, C.M&

liOTfG PUBLIC SERVICE.

ADVISE ETO TREASURY.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

The death took place at' Wellington on March 8, of Mr. Eobert Hayes, C.M.G., 1.5.0., financial adviser to the Treasury, of which he was secretary until the beginning of .last year.

Mr. Hayes was "born in Durtedin 62 years ago, ancl jointed tlie Postal Department in ISBS. He was transferred to Wellington in 1890, and three years later was appointed accountant to the newly established Department of Industries and N Commerce. Three years later Mr. Hayes became head of the Department, imder the Minister in charge of Friendly Societies. When the National Provident Act was passed in 1910, Mr. Hayes was entrusted with the organisation of the fund, and proved an able administrator as well as a competent financier. For 14 years Mr. Hayes was associated with friendly society finance, and during that period many important reforms in those organisations were brought about.

Mr. Hayes was appointed assistant' secretary to the Treasury in 1922, and three years later became secretary to that Department, Paymaster-General, and registrar of inscribed stock. He thus came into contact with the financial problems of the Dominion, and was widely known fo rhis ability in the sphere of finance. In 1926 Mr. Hayes was awarded the Imperial Service Order, and three years later the C.M.G.

In recent years Mr. Hayes held tho offices of chairman, of the Local Government Loans Board, superintendent of the National Provident Fund, and deputy clyiirman of the Government Stores Control Board. Upon his retirement from the Treasury, Mr. Hayes was appointed financial adviser. He was married in IS9B to Miss Ellen Thomas, daughter of Mr. M. H. Thomas.

MRS. MARGARET McFARL An old resident of Auckland dl- t. Mrs. Margaret MeFarlane, of Wood Street, Papakura, died on March 7. She was a daughter of Mr. James McCarten and was born at Te Papapa 78 years ago. Miss McCarten was married to the late Mr. David MeFarlane at Auckland 50 yeare ago last September. They lived for some time in Parnell, and afterwards for 20 years at Onehunga, moving to Papakura upon the retirement of Mr.° MeFarlane from the railway service. Mrs. MeFarlane is survived by two sons and one daughter. Another son was killed in the Great War.