DEATH OF AN EX-UNDERSECREATASY.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 11

DEATH OF AN EX-UNDER-SECREATASY.

(Fkom Ouu Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, August 16.

Mr George Sisson - Cooper, formerly Undcr-secretary for the Colony, died to-day at the age of 73 years, having been for some time past suffering severely from bronchitis. Mr Cooper was the son of the late Mr George Cooper who was Colonial Treasurer in 1841-42, and entered the Civil Service in 1841 as junior clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office. In lb'47 he was appointed private secretary to Sir George Grey, and in 1852 became Native land purchase officer. The ability he had displayed in various matters was too marked to be overlooked, and in 1861, when the old order changed and a new Native policy was inaugurated under Sir William Fox, Mr Cooper was appointed Resident Magistrate of Waipukurau, and after some further years of service he rose to be Under-secretary of the Native department, the Hon. J. C. Richmond being Native Minister at the time. The reliance now placed upon Mr Cooper as one of the foremost servants of the Crown was further and rapidly proved by the duties of Under-secretary for Defence being added to his responsibilities in 1869, on Captain Holt's retirement, and when, in the following year, Mr Gisborne retired from the Colonial Secretary's department, Mr Cooper was selected without hesitation to fill the appointment of Under-secretary for the Colony, thus not only attaining the very highest position in the public service, but also not unfitly completing the round of brilliant service in various branches by becoming the head of that office, grown into a great department, which 29 years previously he had entered as a cadet. For a time he was also acting Under-secretary for Public Works. He retired in 1892 on a pension of £500 a year. Deceased leaves a widow and a family of nine, four daughters and five sons. Mr

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