CIVIL SERVICE CHANGES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9410, 2 April 1909, Page 5

CIVIL SERVICE CHANGES.

Per Press Association. Wellington, April 1. The following retirements, appointments, and transfers in the public service are announced Retirements. —O. Hickson (Commissioner of Stamps), Colonel Loveday (Commissioner of School Cadets), W. H, Northoroft and O. A. Turnbull (Stipendiary Magis fcrates), R. Evatt (Inspecting Officer, Agriculture Department), Eoskronge Holdsworth, A. H. McLean, and John King (Audit Department), Blundell (Treasury), D. Barron and H. Trent (Lands Department), ’B. J. Von Dadelszen (RegistrarGeneral), Lientenant-Colonel Webb (Secretary to Council of Defence). Appointments and transfers. —J. P. Ritchie to be Chairman and In spector of Land Purchase Board; Bamrord (Auckland) to be Deputy - Registrar-General of Lands; Dr. Hay, to be Inspector of Prisons; R. Carter, to be Secretary and Inspector of Customs; Nixon (of Napier), to be Collector of Customs at Wellington; Brabazon (Landing Surveyor, Christchurch), to he Collector of Customs at Napier; McLaurin (Landing Waiter at Auckland), to be Landing Surveyor at Christchurch ; John Strancbon (Auckland) to be Surveyor-General; Thomas Noel Broderick, to be Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor, and to have charge of Hawke’s Bay district; Eric O. Goldsmith (Christchurch) to he promoted to Auckland vice Mr Strancbon ; Flanagan (Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson) to go to Christchurch as Commissioner of Crown Lands, vice Mr Goldsmith; John William Davis (Chief Draughtsman, Wellington Office), to he Chief Draughtsman in head office; Maurice Crompton Smith (acting Chief Draughtsman, New Plymouth), to be promoted to the Wellington office, vice Mr Davis; Archibald McGavoik (Invercargill), to be Chief Clerk at Invercargill; George Henry Ballard (District Surveyor on Taranaki staff), to be Land Officer and Inspecting Surveyor at Gibsorne, vice Mr Broderick); Wm. McAllister, to be Crown Solicitor, Invercargill; Ernest Henry Wilmot to be Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at Dnnedin ; Harry May Skeet (Chief Draughtsman, Hokitika) to be Commissioner nf Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at Invercargill, vice Mr Wilmot; Robert Thomas Sadd (Ckief Draughtsman, Nelson), to he Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at Nelson, vice O. Flanagan; David Welch Gillies (District Surveyor, Marlborough), to be Chief Draughtsman at ‘Nelson ; Frederick Augustus Thomson (Wellington), to be Chief Draughtsman at Hokitika.