AFTER LONG SERVICE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 9

AFTER LONG SERVICE

MR C. 8., JORDAN RETIRES. UNDER-SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE. The retirement of Mr C. B. Jordan from, she Public Service (announced by ..the Minister for Justice, the Hon. El P. Lee yesterday), adds the name of another well-known officer : of the higher ranks of the service to, the list of officers who are relinquishing their position after long and efficient service to the State and the public. Mr Jordan will have spent thirty-seven years in the Public Service in January next, and during his official life he has filled several important positions. On .severing' bis connection with the service at the end of the present* year, it is Mr Jordan's intention to join his family, who ate engaged in farming pursuits in Ikiuranga. Mir Jordan, who is the son of the late Mr. G. W. Jordan, for some years ClerkAssistant in the Legislative Council, started his career in the Public Service when Ee entered the Justice. Department es a cadet in January, - 1885; and, with the exception of Six months spent in the Supreme Court Office at Auckland many vears ago, he has remained an officer of the Head Office of the department ever since. He Became on execu-. -Live officer of the department in. 1896, when he succeeded Mr F. Waldegrave as chief clerk; and he again succeeded Mr Waldograve as Under-Secretary for Justice apd Prisons in 1912. On the retirement in 1916 of Mr T. W. Fisher, now deceased, Mr Jordan was appointed Undersecretary for Native Affairs, and. in the same year he was chosen for the appointment of Secretary te the Cook Islands Department. In consequence of his selection for the last two appointments (Native Affairs and Cbok Islands), Mr .TorA' ,T ' ceased to exercise control over the Prisons Department; it was made a 6eplarat“ department in 1918, and placed under the supervision of Mr C. H. Matthews \ Mr Jordan is s Wellingtoniam by. birth, bavin." been in this city in the (rear 1965. In.announcing Mr Jordan’s decision te retire, the Minister said that the Public Seryice was losing the services of a conscientious officer, whose .reliability and officior.-- in the discharge of his efutie* was generally admitted. ‘T had not fullv recognised prior to my assuming Ministerial Office,’* said Mr Lee, "the responsibilities and cares of a permanent head) of a large State department, nor the amount of hard work those responsibilities entailed; and I must sav that in New Zealand the Government of the day and the general public have been singularly frmiunate in having men in these executive positions who 'have carried out the duties and the trust imposed on them a wholehearted desire for the common vood of the State and the people. Mr Jordan during 'his connection with the justice DepaENjment ha? assisted, es the official head of the department, in the rowing of many important changes in our legislation, jvhioh has (helped the administration of justice and the people it 'affects.” Mr Lee hoped that Mr .Jordan would, in his new sphere of activity as a fsriuer in conjunction with his eon, who TVCS a returned soldier, have success. In reply to an .inquiry, Mr Leo stated that Mr Jordan’? successor had not ye( been unpointed, but the position would he filled towards the end of the year.