Sir Malcolm Fraser KCMG was SurveyorGeneral in colonial Western Australia from 1872 to 1883 and AgentGeneral for the colony 1892 to 1898.
Malcolm Fraser was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1834. Nothing is known of his early life, except that he must have qualified as a surveyor at some stage, and that he emigrated to New Zealand. From 1857 to 1859, Fraser worked as a surveyor in Auckland. He was then district surveyor for the Native Land Purchase Department until 1863 district surveyor for the Canterbury West Gold Fields until 1867 and finally Chief Surveyor for Westland until 1869.
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