NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 131, 3 May 1935, Page 7

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

CHANGE IN CONTROL

WELLINGTON, May 3

A cli;ui"c ill the administrative control of tlie Native Affairs Department was announced yesterday by tlio Deputy Public Service Commissioner (Mr A. I). Thomson). As from Wednesday Mr P G. Pearce, pcrinaiient head of the department, had been seconded for duty from that department to enable him to undertake special duties m the Public Service Commissioner s ofhee, ami Mr 0. N. Campbell, Coinmissionci under the Small Farms Board in the* administration of the Small larms (Relief of Unemployment) Act, PJ-M. and Deputy Under-Secretary for hands, had been seconded for duty from the Lands and Survey Department to replace Mr Pearce as permanent head of the Native Affairs Department.

Mr 0. N. Campbell was appointed to the Lands and Survey Department in April, 1901, and after qualifying as a surveyor was attached to the drainage branch of the department, rising to tli 3 position of chief drainage eiigineer in August. 19212. In April, 1927, he was transferred to the position'of Commissioner of Crown Lands for the North Auckland district, which position he held till May, when lie was apopinted Small Farms Commissioner. Mr Campbell, who is the son of an early settler, was born at Waipu, and educated at the Auckland Grammar School. 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 taken a keen interest in land settlement, and was 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 in 1929 authorising development loans to selectors.