LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Overseas Orchestra will assemble ;for practice at the Town Hall tomorrow evening at 7.45. o’clock.

Mr. W. A. Burton, S.M. at Gisborne, brother of tho Misses Barton of Hokitika, and Mr Charles A. Barton Clerk of the S.M. Court at Auckland, whe is retiring from the Magisterial Bench at the end of the month, was born at Birmingham on December 3rd, 1852 educated in Queensland and New Zealand, and entered the Justice Department as a cadet at Hokitika if September, 18G7. He was appointed sistant clerk in 1870, receiver of golc revenue and clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Court at Kumara in 1879, held similar positions at Greymouth in ISB2, and came to Gisborne as clerk of the Magistrate’s Court and Registrar of ' the Supremo Court in 1891. In 1900, he was appointed a Resident Magistrate at Gisborne and for eigrteen years Mr Barton, has filled the position honourably, and with very great satisfaction, boing most conscientious in his judgments and devotion to duty and thoroughly painstaking and methodical in all his work. During tit fifty years of service he lias only had one month’s leave of absence, which was given him many years ago for a trip to Australia, and the three months leave to he granted him. at the end of the present month will bo the only substantial period of rest he has lind.