PUBLIC SERVICE CHANGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11817, 2 April 1909, Page 5

PUBLIC SERVICE CHANGES.

-r -^ MR TRENT RETIRES. JIM BIUM)i:RIUIis PROMOTION. ■M-R. BU-LLA'RD'S 'I^RA-NSFER TO GISBORNE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Tho following retirements, appointments, and transfers iv the Public Service arc announced :— ■ RETTREMENTS. Mr C. Hiekson, Commisioner of Stamps ; Colonel Lovedhy, Commandant of School Cadets ; Messrs W. H. Northcroft and A. Turnbull, Stipendiary Magistrates; Mir R. Evatt, Inspecting Officer of Agricultural Department; Messrs Roskrudce, Hpldsworth, A. H. Mcl^ean. and * John King, Audit Department; Mr Blundell, Treasury; Messrs D. Barron and H. Trent, liands Department ; Mr E. G. Von Dadelzen, Regis-trar-General ; Lieut-Obi. Webb, Secretary of tlie Oouricil of Defence. APPOINT^tENTS AND TRANSFERS, iir J. D. Ritchie to be Chairman and inspector of the Land Purchase Board, Mr Bamford (Auckland) to be Deputy-Registrar-General of Lands, Mr Hay to be Inspector of Prisons, Mr R. Carter to bo iSecretary' andl Inspector of Customs, Mr Nixon (of Napierl to be Collector of Customs at Wellington, Mr Brabazon, landing surveyor at Christ' church, to be Oollector of Customs at Napier, Mr McLaurin, landing waiter at Auckland, to be landing surveyor at ■Christchurch, •Mr John Strauchon (Auckland) to be Sbrveyor-GeneraJj Mr Thomas Noel Brofiriok (Gisborne) to, be Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor, and( to have charge bf the Hawke's Bay district ; Mr Ent* C Gold-Smith (Christchurch) to be promoted to Auckland 1 , 'vice . Mr -Strauchoi?. ; Mr Flanriagan (Commissioner of Crown. Lands, Nelson) to go to Christchurch as Commissioner of Crown Lands, vice ■Mr Gold-Smith; Mr John William Davis (chief draughtsman' m the Wellington office) to be chief draughtsman m the head office ; Mr .Maurice Crompton Smith (acting chief draughtsman at New Plymouth) to be promoted to the Wellington offioe, vice Mr Davis : Mr : Archibald McGavock, Invercargill, to; be chief clerk at Invercargill ; Mr Geo. Henry Bullard (district surveyor on Taranaki staff) to be Land Officer and Inspecting Surveyor at Gisiborne, vice Mr Brodrick ; Mr William McAllister to ■ be Crown solicitor at Invercargill ; My Ernest Hem-y Wilm'ot to be Commissioner of Orown Lands and -ChiefSurveyor at Dunedin ; Mr Harry May; Skeet (chief draughtsman at Hokitika) to: bo Commissioner' .of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at Invercargill, vice Mr- : WBlmot; Mr Robert Thomas Lddd (chief draughtsman. Nelson) to be Commissioner of Crown .-Lands- ---and.' Chief ; Surveyor at Nelson, vh;o ty'r Flannagan ; Mr David Welch Gillies (district surveyor at . Marlborough) to .be chief draughtsman at Nelson ; Mr Frederick Augustus Thomson (Wellington) to be chief 'draughtsman at Hokitika. , , i ■ ii i I. in- .-.'•■ The' well-deserved promotion which lias been extended to Mr T. N. Brodrick, District Surveyor and local Land Officer, Gisborne, will be heartily endorsed by all who haVe come m contact with this able and courteous official, who, during his brief sojourn m Gisborne, has earned' the esteem of many. <Mr Brodrick joined the - service as a qualified surveyor m Canterbury 32 years ago tliis month. Three years prior to that (1874) he was a cadet on a station property with the now Hon*. J. F. Richardson. Mr Brodrick has spent a lengthy portion of his time m the Canterbury district, which he practically traversed from om end to tlio other,rendering some most useful service m connection with glacial ■• work on the Southern Alps. He has also been, engaged m ■ Otago and , Marlborough, having been sent to take charge, of fhe celebrated Flaxbourno case. With head, quarters at Timaru, Mr Brodrick held the position of assistant surveyor and district land! officer, together with the charge of the Roads Department of South j Canterbury. From this offioe he "Was! trans'erred; io Gisborne m , July, .^- 1.906'. : The appointment of Mr Brodrick to Commissioner for OroWn, Lands arid ..] Chief Surveyor for 'Hawke's Bay will entail his removal to Napier, and a I change m the membership of« the Tai* Rawhiti Maori Land Board. Mr George H. Bullard, District Surveyor of > Taranaki, who has ■■ been ap-' Jiointed 'to.take Mr Brodrick's .place, pined the Civil Service m 1879 at Neltebri^*;where he remained until 1690, teheSb.' hb was promoted and transferred tb Taranaki. He is a man of about 49 years ".of age. As the senior Commissioner of Crown, liands- arid Chief Survey ot of the Domitiion, ilflf length of service and m every other "Way, the appointment of Mr J. StrauchOn to the office of SurveyorGeneral was fully anticipated throughout the service! Mr Strauchon. has ably held the Commissionership of Lands for Westland, Taranaki, Wellington, ,and is at present m that office at Auckland-i In the earlier days he was.. District .Surveyor m Otago. , ; Mr Eric 0. Gbld-Siriith, .who advaiices from the Commissioner of Lands and Chief Surveyor at Canterbury to Auck: land, was many years ago District Surveyor at Tauranga-. bubseqiiently he came to Gisborne, and' after being stationed here for some years, was promoted, to the Cbmmissionership of Lands for Hawke's Bay, recently being transferred! to Canterbury. The appointment of Mr E. H. Wilmot to the Commissionership of Crown Land^i at Dunedin indicates that Mr D. Barron, the present officer, and brother of Mr A. Barron, Chairman of the Land Purchase Beard, is also being retired-. Tlie new Secretary for Customs, Mr IV Carter, was stutioned m Napier for ■many years, afterwards being transferred to Dunpdiri as landing surveyor, thence to Wellirigtdn to the same, position, and afterwards to Nelson as cpllector of Costonlß. Mr Carter is not exactly the senior m this branch of the service, being superseded by Mr J. Mills, brother 'of Sir James Mills, collector at Auckland, who however, «uf-. fers indifferent health. Joining the service m August 1865, it appears that Mr Carter can hold tho secretaryship for but a- yoar, if it is intended to continue the enforcement of the ago limit. A The retiring Land) Purchase Officer, Mr A. Barron ,lvas been a public servant since 1861,- the year of liis arrival m New Zealand. He served under the Provincial Government of Otago, and on the abolition of the*. provinces, was selected as the first , assistant m the* organisation of , the General Survey Department. Since then ho has had gharge of the head office, the Under-Secrctiuy-ahip of Cri>wn Lands, Mr' Edw-ard! John Von Dadeltswn the publisher of the Official Year Bf>ok, i^ a well-known figure m the New Zealand Civil Service.' 1 As -a young riian he was associated with Mjr " (now Sii) John Gorst), Chief Commissioner for the Waikato, where, under Sir George Grey's direction, the thin end of the wedge of civilisation was firmly planted, but through the action of the natives the schoine was to an abrupt con: elusion.-- Subkquentjy Mr Von, Dadelszen joined the postal 'service, and^ cn-i tfercd the Itegistiar-General's offico m 1864. \