AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS' SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 1 April 1915, Page 6

AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS' SERVICE

—: —* RETIREMENT OF MR. D. XILLER. Mr. D. Miller, Chief Inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department, is retiring on superannuation. He ceases duty to-day. Yesterday in the General Post Office the Secretary of the Department (Mr. W. R. Morris), in the presence of a large number of senior officers, bade farewell to Mr. Miller, who has boon in the Service for forty-two years. Mr. Miller is well known throughout the Service as an enthusiastic bowler, and as staff officer to the Director of the Post and Telegraph Military Services, in which lie holds the rank of lieutenantcolonel. On it becoming known that Mr. Miller was retiring from the Service the senior officers of the Service decided to show their appreciation of his good fellowship, and yesterday the Secretary presented him with some very valuable tokens of rospect. Mr. Morris expressed regret at losing the services of an officer with whom he had been associated officially since 1881. He hoped Mr. Miller had many happy yens of enjoyment ahead of him. Mr. Miller had given nearly half a century to tho service of this country, and had well earned a respite from official.cares. In thanking Sir. Morris and the officers who had shown appreciation of his efforts, Mr. Miller said he left the Service with mixed feelings. It was, he felt, a big step to take—he' was sure it would take him some time to realise that ho was no longer a member of the Post and Telegraph Service. He referred in a _ happy spirit to the days when he joined the Service at Napier. The staff when ho joined consisted of a chief postmaster, a. chief clerk, a "chief" cadet, and a "chief" letter-carrier—four officers all told. To-day the Napier staff numbered over 130 officers. Mr. Miller joined the Service in 1873 as cadet in the Chief Post Office, Napier. On April 1,1881, he was appointed clerk at Wellington, and in 1886 he was appointed senior money-order clerk in trie Chief Post Office, Christchurch, and in 1895 to the position of Chief Clerk in the same office. In 1901 he was appointed to the position of Assistant-Inspector of Post Offices in the Northern District, and in 1903 to tho position of Chief Postmaster and Commissioner of Stamps at Wanganui. In 1910 he was selected for the position of Chief Postmaster, Wellington, and on January 1, 1913, took up the position of Chief Inspector for New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are leaving at an .early dato on a tour of tho Australian States.