[?]he late Charles Wurth

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Larles Theodore Wurth,

who died in Brisbane on March 15, was born in Townsville on ember 20, 1881, and not in South ica, as stated in PIM of April (p. is connection with Africa was ially through the Boer War. He demobbed in Brisbane at the of it, but then returned to South ca, where he worked for the ’eminent Railway Department some years. i 1909, he was back in Australia lying for appointment to the uan Government Service. He me a Treasury and Custom’s c in Samarai but in mid-1910 ed on to become Chief Clerk in Government Secretary’s De ment, at Port Moresby early 1912 he became a Resident istrate and until the middle of served in this capacity in the Central, Kumusi and Mambare sions. early 1915, he left for Australia inlist in the AIF. I saw him i he was passing through Dam he expressed the fear that he Id be accepted as a conscript not as a volunteer. However, conscription issue, then before Australian people, was defeated.

' was with the 25th Battalion in ice and at the end of the war •led, in Edinburgh, Miss Elsie r, who returned with him to ia, where he became RM of Northern Division, which had formed by amalgamating the mmusi and Mambare Divisions, remained there (with HQ at a Bay) until moved to Port Jsby as RM of the Central sion sometime in the 1920’5, became Commissioner of Lands,

with a seat on the Legislative and Executive Councils in July, 1936, and so remained until he retired from the service in 1939. He was highly thought of by Sir Hubert

Murray and by those with whom he worked.

A good and upright man who made many friends. A gentleman, Bamahuta, Charlie.