RECORD OF SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1014, 3 July 1930, Page 9

RECORD OF SERVICE

CITY WAREHOUSE MANAGER RETIRING SARGOOD’S MANAGER AY hen All*. Charles H. Jones, warehouse manager for Sargood, Son and Lwen, Ltd., retires at the end of this month, ho will have 50 years’ service in the soft goods trade to his credit, and all but seven years have been spent in the interests of the firm. A Chichester boy, Mr. Jones was born in 18G5, and at the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a prominent soft goods firm in London. He rapidly advanced himself in the next seven years until, in 1887, Mr. John A. Ewen, father of Mr. John F. Ewen, the present Auckland director of the firm, engaged him to come to Auckland! When Mr. Jones took up his duties as departmental manager of the warehouse in Auckland trade conditions were bad, and because of the difficulty of obtaining access to the AVaikato, very little business was offering from that area. Slow trains and horse coaches were the mode of transport, of travellers in those days, and at one time the firm seriously contemplated withdrawing its travellers from the AVaikato district. Trade improved rapidly, however, with the development of the AVaikato as a dairying district. After 20 years’ service in Auckland. Mr. Jones was sent to England and Europe to study market conditions, and on his return he was appointed warehouse manager at Auckland, and has held this position ever since. Always keenly interested in trade affairs, Air. Jones was for nine years chairman of the Auckland branch of the AV a rehousemen’s Association.