POST & TELEGRAPH STAFF CHANGES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 6

POST & TELEGRAPH STAFF CHANGES

- — a : v; ;The close of the financial year' will see the retirement from the Post and telegraph Department of several im- - jiortant officials, who have rea'ched t'he ige limit, and whose departure from the services will, mean a whole, chain of pro- : motions extending throughout the service and from one end of iNew Zealand to the . other: Among'the officers, who will cease duty'at' the' end of' next ' month .will be Mr. . 11.I 1 . D. -Holdsworth, Chief Postmaster at Auckland, who re- , firos after. 48 jeaTs' service. .. For., the ;Sast nine years, Mr. ■ Holdsworth has Seen in charge at Auckland, where ho ■ <s : very /well known and highly respectad, both as an officer and a citizen. ■ Prior to being appointed to Auckland, he was for no less a period than twentyseven years postmaster at New Plymouth. • . • . The Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, ■ Mr. •W. M'Hutcheson, also retires ,at the end of next month./ For ; the past four years he has been in charge at Dunedin, prior to that he was Chief Postmaster for four years at liivercaririll. and, before that, live years at Timaru. -Mr. M'Hutcheson retires with fifty years' service to his_ credit.. After forty years' sereico, Mr. A. W- ' Mann, Chief Postmaster at" Westport, retires next month. • He lias occupied . his present position for three years,. . prior to .which he was nine years postmaster 'ait Waihi; , Mr., P. P. White, forty-six years in the service, will relinquish.,,' official duties? altogether'next month-. /He -has, for. two years past.; been' Chief Postmaster .at the Thames, and before that was in charge at Hamilton for three . years.. : • So. far no one has been appointed tn ' succeed to any of/ the aforementioned •' .positions. Applicants for them are being a3vertised for in 'the usual" way, but it will probably be another ...six weeks before the new appointments are announced. i r•' Consequent upon ,Mr. A. J. Talbot, Superintendent of Telegraphs at Christcliurcli, having been appointed to Weir . linsrfcon. and Mr. 11. P. Wyatt, assistant in Wellington. haying been appointed to succeed Mr. Talbot, several changes, are being mado in the. service. '< -Mr.' C. Tre-week,-superintendent at Nelson, becomes' assistant-superintendent in Wellington; and is being succeeded at Nelson'by Mr. A. W. Oxley, suporintendent at Invercorgill. : ' ' Mr.; A. W. Downon, .of Palmerston Northj-has been promoted to be senior mail 'clerk at Gisborne,. and" Mr. J. ; Louisson, senior exchange clerk at Palmerston North, becomes officer-in-charge 'of the Wellington Telephone 'Exchange. . Mr.': W. Dommett, senior telegraphist at'Timaru, retires from 1 the service, this week,'after forty years' service. ATr.'H. D. Grocott. Assistant Chief Postmaster at Dunedin. is at present relieving the Chief Postmaster at Timaru.