New Post Office Director

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 3

New Post Office Director

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. March 8.

The Postmaster-General (Mr Scott) announced tonight that Mr G. Searle has been appointed Director-General of the Post Office.

I Mr Searle, who has been i the second deputy director- . general, succeeds Mr J. B. DarI nell. The Postmaster-General also announced the appointment of Mr L. W. Keys (director of personnel) as deputy directorgeneral in succession to Mr E. S. Doak. Both Messrs Darnell and Doak will retire this month.! Mr Scott also announced the appointment of Mr F. D. Irv-j inc (director of public relations and management services) as second deputy direc-tor-general. The appointments will take effect from April 1 . Mr Scott said since 1960, Mr I

Searle had held administrative responsibilities in the General Post Office—first as a divisional director and latterly as second director-general. On several occasions Mr Searle has led New Zealand delegations to overseas conferences and meetings on international telecommunications.

i In 1962 he became the New ! Zealand member of a four- ! government management committee responsible for the installation of the Commonwealth Pacific telephone cable (Compac). The Postmaster-General said while this work was in progress. Mr Searle was appointed by the Commonwealth

.partners to convene a similar committee to provide the : South-east Asian Common- . wealth telephone cable (Seacom). Mr Keys reached administrative rank in the Post Office lin 1949 after holding welfare land personnel duties in the i General Post Office since 1947. In 1959 he was a director-in-charge of the postal services and represented New Zealand in this capacity at the Asian Oceanic Postal Union conference in Manila. Mr Scott said Mr Keys was then appointed director of i personnel. Mr Irvine —a member of the Decimal Currency Board with the responsibility of Post Office arrangements for the change to decimal currency—i recently visited Ausralia to ob-i serve its conversion to decimal currency. ' He became director of public relations and management j

[services in 1965 and has had the administrative responsibility for the introduction of electronic computers in the I Post Office.