APPOINTED A MAGISTRATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 8

APPOINTED A MAGISTRATE.

COLpNEL R. W. TATE. tUTC ML?QKAJPH,-HPKESS / ASSOCIAaiCK.] : V WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The vacancy . existing in the Magistracy has been filled'.by the appointment of Colonel,'R. W.':. Tate. ...; The recommendation for the, appointment was transmitted to the Governor-General yesterday by the Minister for Justice, the Hon. E. P. Lee. : . - «,

Colonel : Tate, for the last four years, has been Administrator, of- Samoa,' which position f he -is vacating during the ; next few, weeks. For : many years Colonel Tate practised as a solicitor in the Wairarapa district. Ho was admitted to the bar in 1886. :

A deep interest in military matters. has always been» taken by Colonel. Tate and he has held, particularly during the war, several important positions j under the y New .Zealand defence system. In--1914 he relinquished his law ;■ practice and •was appointed to the command of 'the Wellington military district, holding that appointment until 1916, when he accepted the office of '. Adjutant General to the New; Zealand Forces, a position /which; he] filled until his appointment in 1919 as Administrator of Samoa. - ■ It has not yet been decided wlhere Colonel Tat© -will be stationed > when, he j takes up his new duties. ' ; i