CIVIL SERVICE REORGANISATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 498, 4 May 1909, Page 5

CIVIL SERVICE REORGANISATION.

$ I A RUMOURED PROPOSAL. It is rumoured that in view of tho proposed incorporation of tho Health Depart- , nient with that of Hospitals, Dr. J. M. Mason, Chief Health Oihcer, has been offered the position of Government Resident at Karotenga. Dr. Mason, when questioned by a Dominion representative yesterday, declined to make any statement on tho matter Lieutenant-Colonel W. < E Gudgeon, C.M.G., British Resident for the Cook Islands, whose headquarters aro at Rarotonga, f\s well past his. 60th year, and therefore eligible to bo retired if tho Government so wishes. He_ was a sergeant-major in charge ?J.i "*£*** Contingent undor Colonel AUJonneu, in Titokowaru's war, 1864-70, was awarded a commission/for gallantry m disarming a body of Natives atAreiahi, and took part in various other campaigns of the Maori War, hnally pursuing To Kooti into the Urewera.' Ho was appointed to" be Kesident Magistrate at Gisborno, and was F™> present at tho Panhaka trouble &ai * -.on o ,- was In ohar B° at M anaia from 1881 to ISBS, major commanding the land lorcos of Wellington, Acting-Undor-Secretary for Defence 1886-86, Commissioner of Police, , »nd a Judge of the Native Land Court He was appointed British Resident for tho Cook . Mmkls m 1899, and received tho Ordei of i> iU .(x. the i oilowing year. Dr. Mason was born at Arbroath in 1865. and educated at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cam- . bridge. Brussels, and Pans He is a Fellow of tho Chemical Society, London, and was examiner in bacteriology and pathology to the New Zealand University from 1895 to 1900. In 1903 he was appointed a vicepresident of the Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, and last year he was president of the Public Health Di"Sl°n of the Intercolonial Medical Congress at ilolbourne Di. Maran is corresponding member of several important European societies, ami lie has written, largoly on public aJairs. Ho was appointed a surgeon-cap-tain of tho'New Zealand Militia in 1895.