Lucky Kins

NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 4

Lucky Kins

NOT everyone is as fortunate as W. R. King, private secretary to the Hon. J. B. Donald, Postmaster-General. He has. the name and stature of a king and his associate., call him Rex. You'll moot his tall masculine figure nearly any day wending its way into the precincts of the Parliament Buildings and night time, being a suburbanite, you'll see him heading for a popular bus service stop. Nearly twenty-two years' service with the Crown finds him still the quiet and unassuming chap he waa when, m hrs early days, he joined up with the Department of Agriculture. His first secretarial appointment ■r^ime during tlie life of the National Government m 1915 when he attended to the sr-ribh'ing wants of the late W. D. S. Mac Donald, then Minister of Agriculture. Like many another of his fellow-s he hopped into the big straff, but his job was Waiting for him upon return from !i!ltllllllllilllllll!:illlllllllllllllllllllllllllll!l!llli!l!!llllllTil!illli!lliillilllilllll!llllllll!

the Avar. During the Massey Government he acted as secretary to the Hon. Nosworthy ancl travelled with that gentleman to Canada to attend the meeting of Empire Parliamentary delegates held the.c last year. The trip too, came at an opportune time, for W.R.K. had been unfoiuun.uo enough to strike a run of ill-health. He enjoyed the salt spray of the Pacific though, and stepped off. tne boat a one hundred per cent, new man.