LANDS OFFICE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20167, 23 July 1935, Page 2

LANDS OFFICE

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS Several important promotions in the Lands and Deeds Department are announced. The retirement of Mr W. P. Morgan, District Land Registrar at Dunedin, has made several transfers necessary. They are as follows: Mr G. H. Seddon, District Land Registrar at Gisborne, to be District Land Registrar at Dunedin. Mr H. O. Govan, District Land Registrar at Blenheim, to be District Land Registrar at Gisborne. Mr C. L. L. Harney, Assistant Land Registrar, Christchurch, to be District Land Registrar at Blenheim. Mr C. J. L. McCree, senior clerk, Christchurch, to be assistant Land Registrar, Christchurch. Mr W. V. Morton, Wellington, to be clerk at Christchurch. Mr W. E. Bain to be transferred from Napier to Wellington. Mr Harney, who Is going to Blenheim, was educated at the Westport District High School, and joined the service at Blenheim in 1906 as a cadet. He was transferred from Blenheim to Auckland and then to Napier in 1921. When the Napier office was destroyed by the farthquake in 1931, Mr Harney was transferred to Christchurch, where he has been assistant Land Registrar for four and a half years. He is well known to members of the legal profession, and has taken a great interest in the staff of the Christchurch office, having been chairman of the committee of the Provincial Buildings Cricket Club for the last two years. He will leave Christchurch next month. Mr McCree received his education at the West Christchurch District High School and joined the service in Christchurch in 1915 as a cadet. He was promoted to the position of senior clerk in 1926, and will now take over the duties of assistant Land Registrar. Well known, too, in the athletic world, he was captain of the Provincial Buildings Cricket Club for the 1933-34 season, and is a member of the Christchurch Football Club. Outside his duties, and sport, he is keenly interested in music, and is a member of two private orchestras in the city. The date upon which the promotions will take effect depends on the actual date of Y retirement of Mr Morgan.