RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13948, 1 May 1909, Page 2

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

DR. M'ARmu^APPOINTED

688 Association, r. M «J^ IN GTON, April 3fc Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., haa been an, pointed chairman of tne KaUway Appeal Board, in succession to jttr. H. Eyre^Kenny, who has been 'ntired on superannuation.

*h?k-ft MM * der M.'A'thnt is one of th» best-known magistrates in tlie Do1 1855,' and educated at Scotch College Melbourne, and Melbourne Univers^', time he was a master at Scotch College *££*? *® ac^. er «* the Model &nool, South Australia, Bfe arrived ia New • Zealand in 1880, and was appointS4 senior master of the AuckUnTOiST*' m y .School' and subsequently first Principal of the^AucklandTrainf.g Sllege. ji c established Qneen's Colleee privately. In ft9B heitarted prac^ f 1 and solicitor in Auck> land and also, acted as coroner*. He R^ ° n A th * A ™H««J Education I Board, and was at one time president S J^ A ?S^s d ™*** Association. * or some time le was lecturer on juri»prudence, constitutional history, and pohtical economy at Auckland Unirers+^P? ege - ml?im I?i 1 901 he w<u appointed Stipendiary Magistrate at Wellington where he soon established his reputa^ tion as a magistrate, especially in criminal cases.