THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2884, 30 June 1909, Page 88

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

RETIREMENT OF MR H. A. GORDON (From Oto Own Corhespondekt.) WELLINGTON, June 24. Mr H. A. Gordon, the well-known mining engineer and Fellow of the Royal Geoloigcal Society, who has been consulting engineer to the State Coal Mines Department, is letiring from the public service on superannuation. He is a native of Aberdeenshire, where he was bom 78 years ago. As a young man of 20 he went to India, and followed his profession as an engineer for three years. Then he went to Victoria, and went in for mining. Ho came to New Zealand in 1861, and foa- four years carried on business as a general storekeeper on the Otago goldnelds. When the West Coast goldfields bi-oke out.. Mr Gordon accepted a appointment as engineer and miiiemanager, and acted in that capacity for various companies till 1874, when he eutered the civil service as inspector of works for the Public Works Department fn Westland. In 1882 he was transferred to the Mines Department as inspectingengineer — a position which he occupied till 10 years ago, when he left the service to enter into private practice at Auckland, where he was associated with several of the big gold-mining companies. When, a few years later, the State ,Coal Mines Department was inaugurated, he became its consulting engineer. "LINSEED COMPOUND." The "Stackport Remedy" or Coughs and Colds. Of 40 years' proven efficacy.