PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 11, 13 January 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr H. M. Skeet has been appointed Comnussioner for Crown Lands and Chiof Surveydi' for the Auckland district, vice Mr ; Eric Goldsmith. JVIr H. G. Price has been appointed CJiief Draughtsman in the Department' of Lands at; Christchurcli, and Mr F. A. Thompson assumes a simi3ar position at Napier. Mr Skeet has been succeeded at Southland by Mr Q. H. M. M'Clure.

Mr George Newton, who died, at the Grey River Hospital on Sunday last, at the age. of 81 years, was an old resident of Brunner. He had taken a-great deal ofiuterest in Labor matteis on the West Coast for a number offyeai-s. At the time of the big maritime strike,;, he was practically tli?' leader of the Laboi- i party on the soaet, and took a prominent part in the dispute. For years he was president of the Grey Valley .Miners' Union.' Mr James Newton, now Inspector of Mines for the West Coast, Nelson, and Mariborough, is a son of the deceased. Another son, Charles, died only last week. .