Estate Commissioner

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 10

Estate Commissioner

Mr. Michael Finucane, Companion of the Star of India, who will be one of the new Estate Commissioners, is "&, son of Mr, James Fin'ucane, of Limerick. He married in 1889 Lola Geitrude, daughter of Lieutenant-Co-lonel Mathew, of the Indian Medical Service. Mr. Finucane is a Secretary to the Government of Bengal Revenue and General Statistics Department He was educated at a private school, and afterwards at tho Queen's College, Cork, and is an M.A. of the late Queen's University. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1872, became Under-Secretary for Bengal in 1880 ; Director of the Department of Land Records and Agriculture in Ben?al in 1884 ; Officiating Secretary of the Government of ndia Revenue and Agriculture Department in 1894 ; and is a member of the Legislative Council of Bengal. He was decorated for famine services in 1897, and ho has published a work entitled ' The Bengal Truancy Act.'