Mr. Horace Clare Waterfield , Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, was appointed to the staff in March, 1904. He is the second son of Sir Henry Waterfield, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., C.B., late Financial Secretary of the India Office. Mr. Waterfield was born on the 12th of April, 1876, and was educated at Westminster School, and at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he gained the Brown Scholarship, Diploma of Membership (M.R.A.C.) and the Haygarth gold medal. Subsequently, he took a first class certificate of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and was elected a Fellow of the Surveyors' Institute, London. Mr. Waterfield then became a resident land agent, and in that capacity he successively held appointments on estates belonging to Lord De Saumarez, the late Marquis of Anglesey, and Lord Iveagh, before coming to New Zealand.

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