William C. Walworth Pearce died in the District Hospital, Herberton, North Queensland, on August 6th, 1931, following an operation.
He spent practically the whole of his life in Australia, the greater part in North Queensland. His professional training comprised a three years’ course in civil engineering, including building construction, surveying, the erection of plant for mines, etc., and on the completion of that training in 1897 he was engaged for about two years in mining, prospecting and development of deep leads under the basalt of the Macquarie and Ophir gold fields, followed by examination of properties in Victoria and New South Wales.
In 1899 he was appointed general manager of the Deep Creek Co., Ltd, at Gympie, and in the next few years was engaged in consulting and superintending work in that district and Central Queensland. In 1901 he removed to North Queensland, first to Irvinebank, and afterwards to Herberton, when he was occupied as a consultant chiefly in connexion with tin properties. He contributed a paper on the ‘Glen Bismuth Mines, North Queensland’ to the Transactions in 1911 (Vol. xxi).
Mr. Pearce was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 41, Trans I.M.M., 1931-32, pp.658-9
