TEN THOUSAND MARRIAGES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22357, 22 March 1938, Page 10

TEN THOUSAND MARRIAGES

Record of Auckland Registrar MR FRANK EVANS TO RETIRE THIS MONTH [THU PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, March 21. During his period of 26 years as Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Auckland and Christchurch Mr Frank Evans, .Registrar at Auckland, who to retire on superannuation on March 31, has officiated at 10,000 wed-, dings. “By tying the knot for 20,000 persons I hope I have done something towards adding tp the sum of human happiness,” he said this morning. In addition to being Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Mr Evans is Registrar of Electors and Passport Officer, He was private secretary to the Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon from 1900 to' 1902, and private secretary to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward from 1902 to 1906. He left the latter position to become first chief clerk in the Electoral Department. Wellington. In 1912, while holding the office of deputychief in the Electoral Department at Wellington, Mr Evans was appointed to the post of Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Christchurch. He was also Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for Christchurch North, and Registrar for the Southern Maori Electorate, comprising the whole of the South Island. Mr Evans was engaged for the Expeditionary Forces election at the Sockburn and Addington camps in 1914. In 1920 he was transferred to Auckland as Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Registrar of Electors, and Passport Officer, acting as Returning Officer for both Auckland East and Auckland Central electorates at different times, and for the Auckland licensing district, before the registration work of the nine Auckland electoral districts was centralised in his office in 1925.