AGRICULTURAL WORK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL WORK

DEPARTMENT’S CONTINUED EXPANSION NEW POSITION CREATED Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. Consequent on the continued expansion of the instructional and field services generally in all branches of the Department of Agriculture and the consequent increasing demands on the time of the Director-General and the assistant-Director-General, it has been found necessary to strengthen and readjust in some degree the administrative personnel of the department. The Public Service Commissioner has therefore created a new position of secretary and has promoted the present chief clerk, • Mr. AA’. C. Robinson, to this position. Mr. Robinson, who is the eldest son of the late Mr. Charles Robinson, at one time officer in charge of Parliament Buildings, was born in AA 7ellington and received his primary education at the Mount Cook Boys’ and Newtown schools. Joining the Department of Agriculture in the Auckland district office in 1895, Mr. Robinson was in 1901 appointed registrar of brands for the Auckland district, in addition to his duties as senior clerical officer. In 1907 he was transferred to Wellington to take up the duties of divisional clerk of the newly-formed division of livestock and agriculture. On the reorganisation of the department in 1909. with Mr. F. S. Pope as secretary, Mr. Robinson was-appointed chief clerk. His long, varied career in the department, and liis wide knowledge of its affairs are considered eminently to fit him for his new position.