LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 11, 8 October 1936, Page 2

LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Petherick

Air. Arthur James Petherick, account

ant and auditor, head of the firm of Petherick, AVebb, and Alackersey, of this city, with Airs. Petherick, and their youngest daughter, Diana, will leave AVelLngton by the Awatea ou Tuesday uext for Auckland and Sydney, to connect with the liner Ceramic for Durban. It is the intention of Air. Petherick to settle permanently at Coksdadt, East Griqueland (about 100 miles inland from Durban) ou a farm acquired there some years ago. Air. Petherick is the sou of Mr. Frederick George Petherick, who,, at the age of eight years, arrived in AVcllington by the ship Aurora on January 22. 1840—the first passenger ship of the deet chartered by the New Zealand Company formed to settle on the lands of what is now' Wellington. Mr. Petherick, who has lived the whole of his life in AVcllington, was born m 1882, educated at the Te Aro. School, and commenced his- career as a junior clerk

in the AVellington City Council, later becoming cashier in the rates office. Hp was the first municipal officer in New Zealand to become an Associate of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand. That was in the year 1906. The following years Mr. Petherick commenced in business as. an accountant and auditor. He is leaving New Zealand on account of the health of his wife, who is the only daughter of Mr. Charles Coleman, of the Orange Free State, South Africa. Their eldest daughter, Winsome, at present studying nuts ing in the Duuedin Hospital, and only son a medical student at Otago University, are to follow their parents uext month to continue their studies in South Africa , , At a send-off tendered to Air. I’ethericJ by the AVellington Alaster Plumbers’ Association, of which Mr. Petherick has been secretary since 1912, Mr. F. Ballinger, president, made very complimentary references to the ability and long term of service which lay to the credit of Mr. Petherick, and Mr. W. M. King, president of the New Zealand Master Plumbers’ Federation also added a flattering reference to the manner in which Mr. Petherick had looked after the interests of the federation during the 24 years be had acted as secretary. At this gather ing Mr. Petherick was presented with a handsome set of cutlery and a cheque as a token of goodwill, gifts which were accompanied with all good wishes for the future prosperity and happiness of Mr. Petherick and his wife. Air. Petherick was similarly remembered by the New Zealand Wholesale Auto Alotor Parts Equipment and Aceesisory Association, when Air. Al. G. Phelan, president of the New Zealand, association, and chairman of its Wellington branch, on behalf of the representatives, made complimentary reference to the able and conscientious manner in which Mr. Petherick had attended to the interests of the association since 1917. Other representatives also spoke in a similar vein, regretting the loss of Mr. Petherick's services to the motor trade, and wishing him al] success in his new life in East Griqueland. In token of their regard a substantial cheque was ’ presented to help him purchase a new ear in South Africa, to be known as the Motor Association’s car. Air. Petherick was also the first ami only secretary of the defunct Central Chamber of Commerce in Wellington. The accountancy business will be carried ou by Mr. I. J. Alackersay.