Stamped With Efficiency

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 6

Stamped With Efficiency

FEW men can look back on over forty years of continuous activity m any particular branch of the Public Service, but those men with such a record behind them are to be found as the controlling heads of the big departments. Mr. C. E. Nalder, Commissioner of Stamps for New Zealand and Registrar-General of the Land Transfer and Deeds Department, with headquarters m Wellington, is one of the men who has gone far. He is also Secretary of Lands and Deeds m the Wellington Lands Regis- ■ tration District. He has been associated with these departments since a lad of seventeen. As the adviser to the various district lands and deeds departments throughout the country, he is able to decide disputes which may arise. Little known and perhaps, little heard of departments any of these, but, nevertheless, they are important ones, for from stamp and death duties alone the country derives something like three and a-half million pounds yearly. A cheerful and philosophical outlook on life is one of C. E. Nalder's chief characteristics.