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all views, both provincial and departmental, was adopted by the Board 

 of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, and, with slight amendment, 

 by the National Efficiency Board, and was forwarded to the Government. 



Of his best-known publications, the following might be mentioned : A 

 French text-book, Methode naturelle ; Four-figure Logarithms ; and Notes on 

 the Teaching of Mathematical Geography. Since his retirement he had been 

 revising a Table of Logarithms, and this work is now in the press. 



Mr. Hogben was happy in his marriage with a daughter of the late 

 Mr. Edward Dobson, C.E., of Ghristchuroh, who, with her two sons, sur- 

 vives him. Six sons were born to them, two of whom died in childhood. 

 Of the four remaining, three gave their services and two gave their lives to 

 the Empire during the Great War ; and there is little doubt that their loss, 

 borne without murmuring, contributed to his final illness. 



George Hogben was a man of wide reading and scholarship, a thorough 

 and indefatigable worker. He was a true and warm friend, and, through 

 his fairness and broadmindedness, a benefactor to his fellow-men. 



G. M. Thomson. 



