MR. ARCHIBALD CLARK

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 11

MR. ARCHIBALD CLARK

Mr. Archibald Clark, of Eemuera, Auckland, who was prominently identified with commercial' interests from an early period in the history of tho city, and also a representative of a family long established in Auckland, died yesterday at the age of 87 years. Mr. Clark's father, who boro the same name, was one of the pioneers of business in Auckland. He arrived with his family from Scotland in 1849, and two years later was elected the city's first Mayor. Mr. Clark entered his father's business, and he was admitted as a partner in 1873, the firm then being known as Archibald Clark ahd Sons. Mr. Clark, sen., died in 1875, and he was succeeded in the management of the business-by his eldest son, Mr. J. McCosh Clark, who was Mayor of Auckland from 1880 to 1883. It was after the death of Mr. McCosh Clark in 1898 that the business of Archibald Clark and Sons was converted into a private limited liability company, and Mr. Archibald Clark became chairman of directors, a position which he continued to hold until his retirement in 1927. His death marks tho termination of a long association with a widely-known firm which he entered as an apprentice eight i years before his admission as a partner, and .in which lie gained, practical exI'perieneo in various .departments. In 1878 he married ' Miss , Mary Isobol Hidings, who survives him. He leaves | three sons, Mr. J. B. Clark, of Kutikati, Mr. William C. Clark, of Mata'mata, and Mr. Humphrey M. Clark, of Ecmuera, and ono daughter, -Mrs. Sydney Thome George, of Kemuera.