POSTAL OFFICERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2858, 24 August 1916, Page 4

POSTAL OFFICERS

RETIREMENTS AND PROMOTIONS,

Mr. G. W.i Sampson, Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, who has been fifty years in of the Post and Telegraph Department, is retiring from the service. He has been in Wanganui now for several years, and is well respected there. He is being succeeded by Mr. W. Beswick, the late Chief Postmaster at Palmerston North..

Mr. C. Hill, Chief Postmaster at Oamaru, has been appointed to succeed Mr. H. Kissel (deceased) as Chief Postmaster at Timara. . Mr. H. D. Grocott, formerly of the headquarters staff, but who has been acting as relieving postmaster in the south, has been appointed to fill the vacancy at Oamaru.

Mr. J. E. Broadfoot, who was also a member of the headquarters staff, and was lately on loan to the Base Records Office (Defence Department), has been appointed Chief Postmaster at, Dannovirke.

Mr. C. E. Harton, who was also loaned to the Base Records, has now been appointed district accountant in Nekon. Mr. Harton is a lieutenantcolonel of the Post and Telegraph, Corps (Territorials). Consequent upon the retirement of Mr. H. E. Combes from the service to take over the secretaryship of the P. and T. Officers' Association, the P. and T. Corps loses its captain-adjutant. This office has now devolved upon Captain Valentino Dunn, of Auckland, who lias been transferred to the staff division at Wellington.

Mr. C. G. Naumann, third Money Order Clerk at Duncdin, has been promoted to bo second M.O. Clerk at Christchureh.