DEATH OF MR. GEORGE DRURY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 8

DEATH OF MR. GEORGE DRURY

Oil Saturday morning Mr. George Druiy, who was in the Civil Service in ' Wellington for a great many yeare, died i at his residence, m Macdona-ld-ereioent, aged sixty-one. The deceased gentleman was the son of the Rev. George Drury, Rector of Claydon, Suffolk, and wan 'born in that town. He was educated at St Mary's College, Harlow, Essex. Whew a boy he entered as midshipman on board a Blackivall clipper trading to the Eaet Indies. Thw was in 1867, and for nearly ten years thereafter he followed the sea, obtaining his certificate ac master in 1876, at the age of twentythree. He cam© to the Dominion in the Queen of the West in 1877. In the year 1879 he joined the Civil Service as assistant in the weather office at Wellington, and wa» transferred, in 1880, to the Registrar-General's Department, where, after twelve years' service, he rose to the chief clerkship. He retired from the Civil Service- about five years ago. The deceased gentleman had been In failing health Tor a considerable time, ■but only became spriousty ill last Thursday. He leaver a. widow and a son (Atr. 0. R. Drury, accountant, of Sydney, now on hi.* way back to Wellington by the Moana). and two dpiighters — Ali.«s Drury tm<l Mn, Wiltshire- (wife of Mr. Harry Wiltshire, of Messrs. Briscoe and Co.'s local staff). The late Mr. Drury, who wa* a brother-in-law of Adantral Theobald, who vi>uted New Zealand many years ago, waa a member of the Kelburne Bo\vliny Club, and was twice Grand Ma^fcer of the Masonic Lodge Am-an^i. Tho funeral ii ly lake place at. 1Q a.m.' io-mwurw*