Popular North

NZ Truth, Issue 1182, 26 July 1928, Page 6

Popular North

IF it is true that one of the greatest i hardships m. the.Civil Service comes ' about by the frequent .transfers'of officers just .when they- have,'.as it were, become "acclimatized" ■to a dis-. trict or town, then Leonard G. North, of the P. and T. Departmeht, Ohakurie, can be counted among the lucky few. ' For well over 'a a decade North's residence m the' Ruapehu hamlet has dodged the transfer guillotine. ' Whereas, if; departmental transfers are merely cogs; m the bigger machinery of promotion, we .must say that there's a cog slipping soniewhere. Yes, Mr. General Red-Tape, and a good many cogs,, for Len, as he. Js better and more widely known, is one of the most proficient officers who ever handled ,the multiplex duties of a : country-town postmaster's right-hand-man. Even so, there is rib more cheerful and optimistic sour of the earthbound variety than L.GiN., who has hitched his merry-wagon' to the rand bracing breezes of majestic Ruapehu, . and,, "with a strength of. spirit fierce and strong ... cuts atwain the knots that tangle human creed." An .athlete, every inch of hini. One of those wall-knit, agile sportsmen whose dexterous.left arm can.swing a cricket.bat, a hockey stick or a tennis racquet with equal purpose and admirable ease.