AN ESTEEMED TELEPHONE OFFICER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 306, 22 September 1919, Page 4

AN ESTEEMED TELEPHONE OFFICER

' MR. BUCKLEY'S EE'HKEMENT. At a meeting of the Post and Telegraph Engineers' Insitiute, hcid in the Gr.P.O. on Thursday last, special reference was made to the retirement from the service of Mr. T. Buckley, Director of Telephone Services, and tiie various speakers frdm nil sections of the engineering branch throughout New Zealand combined to-do honour to Mr. Buckley's personal integrity and undoubted capaMr. Buckley has been associated with the Post and Telegraph Department for over forty ye&rs, during the greater part of which he has been intimately connected wilili the telegraph and telephone engineering work of the Depuvtment. He is, therefore, regarded as one of the pioneers in connection with modern telegraph : and telephone practice in New Zealand. , Special reference was mado to Mr. Buckley's devoted application to duty, and to the assiduous manner in which lie had all along applied himself to keeping abreast of modern clcctrical engineering problems. During his term of olHco many important developments have taken place—such as wireless 'telegraphy and automatic telephone exchango systems, and in the introduction of these modern inventions-Into New Zealand, Mr, Buckley has played an important part. All the speakers emphasised the fact that in leaving the Department: after so many years of faithful service, Mr. ,Buckley' carried with him the- deepest' respect of his confreres and their best wishes that he would long be spared to pijoy his well-earned rest from official duties.