THE COOK ISLANDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 6

THE COOK ISLANDS.

RESIDENT COMMISSIONER APPOINTED. ;

'Captain H. W. 'Northcrbft, formerly. Stipendiofy, Magistrate, - hixrf iKeii offered and has intimated to tho Prime Minister his accoi)tanoo of the position of Resident Commissioner of' tlio Cobk Islands. .Captain Northcroft was both, in , Essex, Eugland, on.-August 1 2tf,; 184G, and is a son bf Mr. Wni. Northcrtftj n Woll-kubWh eli* gihecr. Brought to New Zealand in the ship Cfeswell in 1851, voililg Northcrbft Was educated ht ■ New. Plymouth and ftt Nelson. While a youth he joined. tlio colonial forces, in Taranaki and served there ttild,in Wangahui.' Ho rtse to tho, of Hulj-lufiijcbtot l in the/Armed Constabhlarr and. , captain in tlio; No# Zealand Militlfti During felKteeii Jpeirs' service, be particjpatcd in forty-nino «nBasements. He displayed oonsnlouous gaU lahtry in' rescuing Farricf-Malor Dud at' Puhgarehu in October 1800, I'nvile Ecoil-' omedes at Tiritirl Hohnh Ih November of the same year, and-Private Watt, at Otauto in Marchi 18G9. For his distinguished conduct in tho field, Captalii Northcroft wAs specially recommended for decoration by Colonel M'Donnell. In 1910 lie,'was awarded tlio New Zealand Cross fot' feervlces ih the field in lßßfli Apiwlnted" resident magistrate for the Waikato in 187f, Cdotain Ntfrthbroft became, later, ebldfields "warden rutd ■ magistrate..'lit Thames, a|id: ih .1892 was appointed■ Bhpnndiaty magistrate, at Auckland, He » at present a resident of Hftmiltoiii, .