REPORTED RETIREMENTS.
OFFICIAL DENIALS. It was stated in a contemporary, yesterday that the General Manager of Railways (Mr. T. Ronayne) would probably exercise his right of retirement during the present year. In Hie same paper it was said that another prominent officer of the Railway Department, Mr. A. L. Beattie (Chief Mechanical Engineer), had announced his intention of retiring shortly. Mr. Ronayne, upon being interviewed yesterday, and asked whether the report "mentioned was accurate, said: "I don't know anything about it; it is an invention of somebody's. There is no truth in it so far as I am concerned, and I have bad no official intimation from Mr. Beattie of his intention to retire." Mr. Ronayne added that (ho computations of superannuation appended to the report wore incorrect both in his own case and in that of Mr. Beattie. , Mr. Beattie, interviewed in turn, also explicitly denied the accuracy of the 'published statement that ho intended to retire. It was, he remarked, absolutely unauthorised. He had no present intention of retiring, and had not yet taken any step in (hat direction.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 4
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181REPORTED RETIREMENTS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 4
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