Will Help To Speed- up

NZ Truth, Issue 1238, 22 August 1929, Page 6

Will Help To Speed- up

RECENTLY appointed Assistant General Manager of New Zealand's railways, Michael Dennehy, has earned well-merit-e.d, promotion. Formerly law officer to the department, he has formulated many things commencing with "Thou shalt" or "Thou shalt not." Dennehy, like his departmental collaborators, . has for long ground . his official teeth at the scraping noises made by , automo- i bile transport as it | cut gradually into the figures of the official trading accounts. In all probability he will share with H. H. Sterling, his immediate chi 4f , the anxiety of determining the reason for the Limit - cd's late arrival, and similar prob- . lems. His official life must be an experience of many anxieties, his chief aim,

.although hidden for the most part from the public understanding, the provision and. maintenance of -many facilities additional to those now existent, providing the earnest that there really is a reason behind the propagandist urge to "Travel by rail." Dennehy has a profound kno wledge of bureaux and official law, his flair for statistics and land conveyancing proving of inestimable value to the department when areas of land ' were acquired for official purposes. As for his personal attributes, he is posses sed of m an y excellent qualities that have made strong appeal to his associates. During the latter years of his service with them he spent a good many hours m the work of m I stituting such amenities and conditions |to which he felt officers were entitled. I