Recent staff changes at the Bulletin

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 24, 11 November 1986, Page 15

Recent staff changes at the Bulletin

The Bulletin's newest recruit is Patsy Broad who has taken over typesetting responsibilities from Erin Marnoch. Erin began her new job at the Ohakune branch of the Trusteebank Wanganui, last week. Patsy is well qualified for the joh and has worked extensivelv with computers and at clerical duties. She worked in l.ondon for tw o years (ora company that hired staff to husinesses on a temporarv basis. Whilst there Patsy worked at various secrctarial duties and was involved with data input of computers. She has worked in Wellington with computers and at Fox Glaeier in the South Island handling reception work for a helicopter firm. as well as heing involved with retail and reception for Alpine Guides I.td. Patsv has heen a visitor to Ohakune for the last three winter seasons and worked at Turoa as a snow hostess. She has now decided to stay in Ohakune and soapplied forthc job of tvpe-setter with the Bulletin. Patsy is keen tostay in the Waimarino for some time and said that she is looking forward to "spending summer in the sun and not in the rain." She is also keen to take on some of the tramps and bush walksaround the mountain over the summer months. donning boots and a pack instead of the customary skis. She said that she found her first week enjovable although challenging.

"In this job accuracy is essential. I \ e had a long break and now I have to get used to it again." she said. Dellyn Barret, who will be 21 next month, joined the Bulletin as assistant assembly/layout artist early in July but was only here for two weeks before the Ayr St/Miro St accident on 26 July which left seven people (one of whom died later) injured and hospitalised. Dellyn, a passenger in one of the two vehicles involved, suffered a fractured pelvis when she was thrown from the car onto an icy, snowcovered road. She spent three weeks in Wanganui Base Hospital before returning to Ohakune to recuperate. She got bored before her convalesence had expired and returned to work two months after the accident. She is now fully recovered. Dellyn is no stranger to Ohakune and it seems almost as if her present position at the Bulletin was predestined. She has friends and relatives (Vicki Wiggins is her aunt) in Ohakune and over the years has become quite attached to the township. In fact when the Bulletin first advertised for an assembly/layout artist soon after the paper was established three-and-a-half years ago, she applied for the job. But because of her youth and inexperience — she was then only 1 7 and straight out of school — she was initially advised to apply again later. About 5-6 months later she was contacted by John Sandford, publisher of both

the Waimarino Bulletin and Jason's Accommodation Directories, and told there was a vacancy in their Auckland office where she would be able to gain the necessary experience by working with senior staff. The vacancy in the Auckland office had been created by the transfer of Rod Gill to the Waimarino Bulletin in Ohakune. Dellyn worked with Jasons for about 1 8 months and then moved back to her home in Hamilton where, for the next six months, she gained further paste-up experience with 'Property Press'and 'The Weekender'. When Rod Gill moved to Taumarunui in April to become production and advertising manager of the Taumarunui Gazette, Dellyn heard about it and, though the vacancy at the Bulletin had already been filled by Robert Milne, she was offered a job as an assistant with responsibility for paste-up and camera process work. She takes over sole responsibility for all pasteup and camera process work this week as Robert Milne moves over onto the editorial staff. Dellyn, who was born in Palmerston North and attended school in Tauranga and Hamilton, hasn't yet had much time or opportunity to travel but she hopes to go to Canada in February 1988 for the Winter Olympics ... as a spectator, not as a competitor! In fact, she was hoping to learn to ski properly this season but her accident put paid to this.