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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Official Assignee's Office

Official Assignee's Office.

Official Assignee. The Offices of the Official Assignee for the Auckland district are conveniently situated on the ground floor of the Custom House building. Mr. Lawson's jurisdiction extends from the North Cape to Gisborne on the east and to Hawera on the west coast; deputy-official assignees are located at Gisborne, New Plymouth and Hawera.

Mr. John Lawson, J.P., Official Assignee in Bankruptcy for the Northern District, was born near Darlington, England, in 1830, and was educated chiefly at Liverpool. Mr. Lawson entered the service of the East Lancashire Railway Company in 1848, remaining in their employ till 1857, when he joined the Ulverstone and Lancaster Company. He left the latter in 1862, to go into business with his brother-in-law in Liverpool as iron-founders and engineers, under the style of Saml. E. Ibbs and Co. Owing to ill-health, he retired from the partnership in 1871, and in the following year came to New Zealand, under engagement as chief of the office staff of Messrs. J. Brogden and Sons, railway contractors. In 1874 he became manager of the provincial railways of Canterbury, and four years later was appointed by the General Government as Commissioner of the North Island railways. He took up the duties of his present office in 1883. In 1857 Mr. Lawson married Miss 10. Stansfield, of Bury, Lancashire, and has two sons and three daughters surviving. His eldest son, Mr. James Ibbs Lawson, C.E., was killed in July, 1896 (whilst in the discharge of his duties as Resident Engineer of the Napier-Taranaki section of railways), at the Pohangina Bridge, near Ashurst. His eldest surviving daughter married Mr. A. H. Turnbull, of Christchurch.

Mr. J. Lawson.

Mr. J. Lawson.