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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 21

Mr Thomas H. Hamer, private secretary to the Premier, has been appointed to succeed Mr Huntley Eliott, as Under-Secretary for Mines, and will take up the position at the end of the year, when Mr Eliott retires on a pension of £4OO a year. Mr Hamer entered the service of the Auckland Provincial Council in 1872, and remained in the service until the provinces were abolished, when he entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand. Two years later he came to Wellington, and received an appointment in the . Mines Department. He abted for a time as Under-Secretary for Mines in the Stout-Vogel Government, but on the department being merged in that of Lands, the duties were taken over by Mr Huntley Eliott, and Mr Hamer became chief clerk. In 1891 he became private secretary to the Premier, in which position he has become so widely known. The House of Representatives on the 24th ult. passed a motion placing on record its high sense of the distinguished services rendered to New Zealand by the late Hon J. T. Peacock, M.L.C., and of the serious loss the colony has suffered by his death, and offering sympathy to the deoeased gentleman’s family. Mr Seddon said Mr Peacock had borne his part in public duty. Respect must be paid to those who in the early days of representative governmert had laid the foundation upon whijh a structure of a very satisfactory character had been erected. The motion was carried, and as a further mark oJLrespect the House adjourned until 2.30 o’clock