NEW APPOINTMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15358, 5 October 1923, Page 2

NEW APPOINTMENTS.

FOUR LANDS COMMISSIONERS. By Telegraph.—Special to Times. "WELLINGTON. Thursday. The appointment fof our land's commissioners was announced yesterday. Mr W. F. Marsh, Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawkc's Bay, at Napier, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for South Auckland, at Auckland. Mr Miarsh has served in the capacity of chief draughtsman at Blenheim, Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland District Land and Survey Offices, and Commissioner of Crown Lands at Hokitika in December, 1915, being promoted to a similar position in Napier in May, 1916. He is to succeed Mr H. M. Skeet, who is retiring. Mr H. J. Lowe, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Taranaki at New Plymouth, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at North Auckland. For many years Mr Lowe was assistant and district surveyor in the Wellington Land . District, and after serving as chief draughtsman at New Plymouth and Auckland, was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at Blenheim in April, 1919, being promoted to a similar position at New Plymouth in April, 1921. lie is to succeed the late Mr R. P. Greville.

Mr R.'S. Galbraith; Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Southland at Invcrcargill, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Olago at Dunedin. Mr Galbraith served as assistant and district, surveyor, and has held the position of chief draughtsman at Invcrcargill and Wellington. In April, 1919, he was appointed to the position of. Commissioner of Crown Lands and-Chief Survryor at Hokitika, and in August; 1922, to a similar position at Invcrcargill. He is to succeed Mr R. H. Sadd, who is reliring. Mr K. M. Graham, Chief Draughtsman in the District Land and Survey Office, Wellington, has been appointed Commissioner off Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Southland at Invercargill, in the room of Mr Galbraith. Prior to joining the Public Service Mr Graham had experience as a surveyor in private practice; he has also had considerable experience in mining and geological surveys, having the diploma of Associate of the Otago School of Mines. For two years he was engaged in trigometrical and standard survey work in the Federated Malay States. He was topographical surveyor with the Defence Department, and in July, 1919, was transferred to the Lands and Survey Department as surveyor. In October, 1922, he was appointed chief draughtsman at Wellington. These appointments create vacancies at Invercargill and New Plymouth, which have not yet been filled.