SMALL PABMS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 12

SMALL PABMS

COMMISSIONER APPOINTED

The Minister,of Lands -(the. Hon. E. j A. Ransom) announced today the appointment by the Public Service Commissioner of Mr. Owen N. Campbell as Commissioner to work under the Small Farms Board in the administration of the Small Farms (Belief of Unemployment) Act, 1933. Mr. Campbell will enter on his new duties forthwith. * Mr. Campbell was appointed to the Lands and Survey Department in April, 1901, and after qualifying as a surveyor was attached to the drainago branch of the Department, rising to the position of chic/ drainage engineer in August, 1922. In April; 1927> he was transferred to the position of Commissioner of Crown Lands for the North Auckland 'Land District, which position he has held, ever since. Mr. Campbell, who is the son of an early settler, was born at Waipu, and educated at the Auckland Grammar School. He is a registered engineer. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, holding a commission, in the Tunnelling Corps. During his career in the Public Service, Mr. Campbell has always taken a keen interest in land settlement, and ho has been responsible for the great activity in small settlement on Crown areas which has taken place in the North Auckland Land District since the enactment of legislation an 1929 authorising development loans to selectors. This experience, together with his close association with land administration problems, should be of great value to the- Government, in carrying. out the small farm settlement, provided for in the-Small Farms (Relief of Unemployment) Act. ' -, '