LANDS COMMISSIONERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18521, 4 October 1923, Page 10

LANDS COMMISSIONERS.

FOUR NEW APPOINTMENTS. ■ TWO IN AUCKLAND. RETIREMENT OF MR. SKEET. [BT TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT. J WELLINGTON. Wednesday. The appointment of four land commissioners was announced to-day. ; , Mr. W. F. Marsh, chief surveyor and commissioner'of Crown, lands ; for Hawke's Bay at Napier, has been appointed commissioner? of Crown Sands ; and' chief .; surveyor for Auckland, at Auckland. * Mr. Marsh served in the capacity of chief draughtsman at Blenheim Duuedin, Wellington »"d Auckland, and^vas; appointed chief surveyor, and commissioner of Crown lands at Hokitika in December, 1915, being promoted to a 'similar position in- Napier in May, 1916. ; He is to ■succeed Mr. K. M. Sheet, who is retiring." ; ; ' Mr. H. J." Lowe, commissioner of Crown lands and chief surveyor-for .Tara-; naki at New Plymouth, has been apponted commissioner of Grown lands and chief surveyor at North Auckland. For many •years'i Mr. Lowe was assistant and district surveyor in the Wellington ■'• land ; district, and after serving as chief draughtsman at New Plymouth and Auckland, was appointed commissioner of Crown "lands and chief surveyor at Blenheim in April t ,'919, being promoted to a similar position at New Plymouth in April. 1921. He is to succeed the late Mr. R. P. Greville. '-'•■' Mr. R. S. Galbraith, commissioner of Crown lands and chief surveyor for Southland at Invercargill,;' has been appointed commissioner of Crown lands and chief surveyor for Otago at Dimedin. Mr. ' Galbraith served as assistant arid district surveyor in the Auckland land district, and has held the positions of chief draughtsman at Invercargill and Wellington. ; In April, 1919, he was appointed to the position of commissioner of Crown lands and chief surveyor at Hokitika, and in' August. 1922, to a similar position at Invercargill; He is to succeed Mr. R. H. S?dd, retiring. Mr. K. M. Graham, chief draughtsman in the district land ,; and - survey "office, Wellington, has been appointed commissioner of Crown lands and chief surveyor: for Southland at Invercargill, in the rom of Mr. Galbraith. Prior to; joining the Public Service, Mr. Graham hsd experience as a surveyor in private He has also had considerable experience in 'mining and geological surveys, holding the diploma of associate of the Otago School of Mines. For two years ho was engaged in trigonometrical and standard survey work in the Federated Malay States. He was topographical surveyor with .the Defence Department, and, in July, 1919,; was transferred to. the Lands and Survey Department as surveyor. In October, 1922, he was appointed chief draughtsman at Wellington.; These appointments create vacancies at Invercargill and New Plymouth, which have not yet been filled. . .