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FRANK ALLWORK, L S.A., 1S57-1913. 



Dr. Allwork came to Tasmania in 1900, and settled at 

 New Norfolk. He was elected to the Society in 1901, and 

 he became a member of the Medical Section. Dr. Allwork 

 was for several years the Chairman of the Official Visitors 

 to the Hospital for Insane at New Norfolk. He was a 

 prominent Freemason, and an active member of the 

 Church of England. 



THK REVEREND GEORGE CLARKE, 1S23-1913. 



The Reverend George Clarke was born at Parramatta 

 on 29th June, 1823. His father, George Clarke, and 

 mother had arrived at Hobart in September, 1822, in the 

 ship "Heroine, ' in which Henry Hopkins, Robert 

 Mather, and other well-known colonists were also passen- 

 gers. From Hobart Mr. and Mrs. Clarke went on to New 

 South Wales, and in 1824 to New Zealand, where they 

 settled as missionaries at the Bay of Islands, in New Zea- 

 land. In 1832 George Clarke, junior, was sent to Hobart, 

 and for so^me time he was a pupil at Mr. R. W. Giblins 

 school at "Summerhome," Mr. Clarke's future home, in 

 the part of New Town now called Moonah. He returned 

 to New Zealand in 1836, and for a time was a pupil of 

 the Rev. W. Williams, afterwards Bishop of Waiapu, with 

 whom he travelled among Maori tribes that had seldom 

 been visited. In 1840 his father was appointed Chief 

 Protector of the Aborigines under the newly-established 

 Government of New Zealand, and in January, 1841. just 

 after the Government establishments had been removed 

 from Bay of Islands to Auckland, George Clarke, junior, be- 

 came a clerk in the Native Department of the Civil Ser- 

 vice of New Zealand. Mr. Clarke had already determined 

 to become a minister of tho Christian Church when op- 

 portunit}^ came, but for several years he gave himself to 

 the service of the Government in its relations with the 

 Maoris. His knowledgje of the Maori lans^uasje and cus- 

 toms was of the greatest value to the Government, and 

 in 1842 he was selected as interpreter at the first criminal 

 sittings of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The case 

 was the trial of a Maori named Maketu, for murder of a 

 Avhite woman and her children, and the greatest care was 

 necessary to make the Maoris understand the trial. Mr, 

 Clarke's conduct in the trial won the confidence of the 

 Government, as well as of the Maoris ; and when, later in 



