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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Frank Cooke Hall

Mr. Frank Cooke Hall. Clerk and Storekeeper at the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1859. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, Yorkshire, and came, in 1879, to Otago, by the ship “Thomas Stephens.” His first experience of New Zealand life was on a sheep station owned by Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., but in two or three years he determined to try his fortune on the Hindon gold diggings, and followed gold-mining with varying luck for over eighteen months. In 1883 he entered the Government railway service at Port Chalmers, where he had charge of the railway shipping. When the channel was improved and vessels of large tonnage could be brought up to Dunedin wharf, the principal page 191 shipping operations were transferred from Port Chalmers to the city, and Mr. Hall was then removed to Dunedin. In 1892 he resigned from the Government railway service,
Mr. F. C. Hall.

Mr. F. C. Hall.

and received an appointment under the Education Department at the Caversham Industrial School, where he remained until he was transferred to the Seacliff Asylum as assistant clerk and storekeeper. In 1899 he was promoted to his present position at the Auckland Lunatic Asylum. Mr. Hall is married, and has one child.