OBITUARY.
MR. A. H. VICKERMAN.
PIONEER SCRYF.YOR. The death has occunod at Cambridge of Mr. Alfred Herbert Vickerman. A " f r,r - F. T,. Vickerman. who settled in Marlborough in J. 149, Mr. Vickerman was born in He was educated at Nelson College and joined the Lands and Survey Department at Nelson in 1X79. Qualifying as a surveyor, he was appointed an assistant draughtsman at Auckland in ISB4. Six years later he NNcnt to Raglan as district surveyor, and when the (iovemuient started opening up the King Country, he nv.ia I'p'iinte.l 11 ir-1 : ict mad engineer at Te Kuiti. where lie via- ia charge i. f a big Ul,.lei taking. In llJi'ii became r..ad engineer tor the Rotorua and .'.hell (hi- .-eciion wa - in-orp.,rat"d with 1 lie Auckland road- dk-trict in uas appointed to Auckland as acting road .■tig i necr. I lie Roads Department became absorbed by the Public Works Department after a while, but in PHI) Mr. Vickerman joined the l>and and Survey Department, being transferred seven years later to Invercargill as chief draughtsman, to return to Auckland in 1 I in a similar capacity, lie retired in I'J2G.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 19 June 1939, Page 4
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