HAWKE, ARCHIBALD FOTHERINGHAM (1862-1936) was born at Stirling, South Australia, and came to Southland as a youth. Educated at a private school at Port Augusta, and at the Invercargill Grammar School, he became in 1878 a junior clerk in the National Mortgage and Agency Co., of which he was Invercargill manager in 1890. Hawke was for some years mayor of Gladstone; for six years a member of the Invercargill borough council; chairman of the Bluff harbour board for three years, and of the hospital board for fifteen; president of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral association, the chamber of commerce and the Southland and New Zealand Rugby unions. He was a member of the High School board of governors and the electric power board. He was called to the Legislative Council in 1918, and served two terms, retiring in 1932. He died on 27 Sep 1936.

N.Z.P.D., 29 Sep, 13 Oct 1936; Who's Who N.Z., 1932; Southland Times, 28 Sep 1936.

Reference: Volume 1, page 201

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