FORMER COASTER RETIRES FROM PUBLIC TRUST

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1948, Page 8

FORMER COASTER RETIRES FROM PUBLIC TRUST

Mr Joseph Dolph, who has been district solicitor and Assistant District Public Trustee in Christchurch since 1920, retired last week. He spent the earlier years of his life at Goldsborough. ’on the West Coast. In 1906 Mr Dolph started work as an articled clerk at Hojdtika. There were no facilities for law education in Flokitika, so Mr Dolph studied by correspondence, taking his courses from Mr J. M. E. Garrow, of Otago University. Mr Garrow later became a professor at Victoria University College. When Mr Dolph was released from his articles he took up a position with the Justice Department at Greymouth. He remained with that department, serving at Greymouth, Hokitika, and Palmerston North, until 1914, when he was appointed to the legal staff of the Public Trust Office in Wellington. In 1919 he was solicitor to the'Auckland office and next year was transferred to Christchurch. t In his younger days Mr Dolph played Rugby football at Hokitika, Greymouth, and Palmerston North. At hockey he won representative honours for the West Coast and Manawatu.