OIL-COMPANY DIRECTOR RETIRES
klr. A. K. ' Oak-Ekibd, director of tln Vacuum OiT Co;'Pty.,* Ltd7, kaving com pleted 40 years \ service with tke compauy, has" decided to retire from activ* parlieipatidn ih tko. company 's busi ness. * After 27" years' st'renuous woii as director in ckargc o.f motor-spiri marketing,' ahd 'also during tlie' past 1! years' as- director of aviation, ke i looking- forward to a well:ea'rned rest. Always ovincing tko kecnest pos sible interest- in' air transport, -he ini tiate'd' tke acquisition by tke compan; of tke first - oil-company-owned 1 plane^
D.H. Motk, and .last year tke company acquired a Stinson-Eeliant, in wkick ke himself kas liown on several occasions. An Engliskman by birtk, kis courtly manner and soft speeck, as yell as kis ousttanding ' ability, ' kave earned kim the deep respeet' and esteem of "the whole industry no less -tkan tkat" of tke company. ke kas sorvcd for almost a lifetime. •
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 8
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