John Barton (public administrator)

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John Saxon Barton {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CMG}} (13 April 1875 – 2 September 1961) was a New Zealand accountant, writer, lawyer, magistrate and public administrator. He was born in Richmond, Victoria, Australia on 13 April 1875. He was one of the two commissioners put in charge of rebuilding Napier after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.{{DNZB|last=Axford|first=C. Joy|id=4b9|title=John Saxon Barton|accessdate=23 April 2017}} In the 1933 King's Birthday Honours, Barton was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for public services in Napier.{{London Gazette |issue=33946 |date=3 June 1933 |page=3783 |supp=y}}

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | volume=CXIX | issue=105 | newspaper=Evening Post | accessdate=21 June 2018 | page=4}}