OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 941, 11 December 1933, Page 2

OBITUARY.

J. B. Hackworth.

The death has occurred at his residence at Khandallah of Mr James Brooks Hackworth, an old and wellknown resident of Wellington. He was a son of Mr James Hackworth. formerly Collector of Customs at Nelson, Wellington and Dunedin. Mr Hackworth was born in London in 1853, and came to Nelson with the family in 1857 by the ship John Masterman. He was educated at Nelson College and Wellington College, being one of the earliest pupils who attended the latter college. Joining the Post and Telegraph Department as a youth, he subsequently entered the service of Dalgety and Company at Dunedin, and went over to the Union Steam Ship Company when it took over certain shipping business from Dalgety’s. Mr Hackworth was for a time in the offices of the Union Company in Dunedin, Christchurch and Tauranga. In recent years he acted as clerk of the Native Affairs Committee of the House

of Representatives, and held several positions in the Native Department, including that of Superintendent of Maori Councils. In his earlier days Mr Hackworth was a member of the Star Boating Club and of the Wellington Football Club. Later he became one of the leading shots of the Christchurch Rifle Club. He was a foundation member of the Lyall Bay Bowling Club, and latterly became a member of the Khandallah Bowling Club. Mr Hackworth is survived by a widow and three sons—Mr William Hackworth (London), Mr Philip Hackworth (Wellington), and Captain C. J. Hackworth (Union Company, Wellington) ; and three daughters—Misses Evelyn, Mildred and Ethel. C. C. Reade. A former resident of Auckland, Mr Charles C. Reade, who did much to encourage the study and application of town-planning principles in New Zealand, has died at Johannesburg. Mr Reade, who was a grandson of Charles Reade, the novelist, received his early training as a journalist in New Zealand, and after visiting England was engaged in journalism at Auckland for many years. lie was keenly interested in town-planning and devoted much time to the organisation of the movement. He lectured and wrote extensively on the subject and enlarged his knowledge by further travel. At the time of his death he was in South Africa on a town-planning mission.