MANY POSITIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 6

MANY POSITIONS

COLONEL TATE’S DEATH SOLDIER AND MAGISTRATE (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday The death has occurred in Greytown of Colonel Robert Ward Tate, C.M.G., C.8.E., aged 74. He was educated at Timaru High School, studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Christchurch in 1886. In the same year he went to Grev-town and began practice. Keenly interested in military affairs, he began his military career as a gunner in the Timaru Battery. In 1911 he was appointed colonel of the Wellington Infantry Brigade, and in 1914 officer commanding the Wellington district. In 1916 Colonel Tate became Adju-tant-General and in 1919 was appointed acting-Military Administrator in Samoa. In 1920 he became the first Civil Administrator in Samoa, a position he held for four years before resigning in 1923 and returning to New Zealand. Later he was appointed a stipendiary magistrate, located at Whangarei and New Plymouth. Retiring in 1933. he resumed his former partnership with Mr J. F. Thompson in Grey town. Colonel Tate became a member of the Masonic Lodge in 1890 and was master of the Grey town Lodge in 1894 and 1901. He was made a past-grand registrar in 1936. He was a syneffisman and people’s warden of St. Luke’s Church. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.