PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2062, 24 April 1907, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Judge Fisher, of tlio Native Lanu Court, lias noun appointed underoeeroLury ror iNative rvilairs. Messrs. Aligned, itodwcll and Hatrick, n'angaiiui, directors of the •spiral Steel Pipe Co., who have been on a visit to Gisborne in connection ailit tho u a tor-supply scheme, proceed to Auckland uy the Tarawera this morning. Mr. W. Ai. J tellies, M.H.R., for jja- of Plenty, who lias been on a short visit to Gisborne, returns to Auckland by lie Tarawera this morn-

Mr. \V. H. Bowler who for the past lolir months lias been acting as uudei secretary to the Native Department .s perhaps the youngest man who has held such an important position in olio N.Z. Government service, being only twenty-nine years of age. The duties have been carried out by him In charge of the N.L.C. Office, Giseerned. The only bar to Air. Bow,er’s permanent appointment to tile position was on the score of youth. Mr. Bowler is well known in Osborne and Wairoa, having been temporarily n charge of the N.L.C. Office, Gisborne and clerk to the Court at Wairoa.

Colonel Porter, President of the Tai Rawhiti Land Council, proceeds Lo • Wellington to-morrow, to confer with the under secreatry on matters connected with the-Board.

Judge Fisher, the newly appointed U.S. for Native affairs, has only' recently been elevated to the N.L.C. Bench. judge Fisher was for the past two years president of the Aotoa Land Board, Yvhnngaiuii District. For about nine years prior to this appointment he was reserves agent at New Plymouth. He completely reorganised the Department of the Public Trustee in that district, showing such marked ability that he was singled out as president for tho Aotea Land Board on the decease of Judge Butler, the former president, later for a seat on the N.L.C. Bench and now for the under-sec.rctaryship. Judge Fisher is a comparatively young man and should bo able to reorganise the Department ,a proceeding sadly needed, if allowed a free hand in the matter.