MR A. T. P. HUBBARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 4

MR A. T. P. HUBBARD

FORTY YEARS IN PUBLIC SERVICE. PRESENTATION ON RETIREMENT. There was a large gathering of. Government officials al the local office of the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday last to bid farewell to Mr A. T. P. Hubbard. Inspector of Stock who had retired, having that day completed 40 years in the Public Service. Mr W. C. Barry, of Wellington, Director of the Live Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture, presided and expressed the great regret he and all his colleagues felt at Mr Hubbard’s retirement.

Felicitations remarks were also made by other officers present regarding Mr Hubbard’s long and meritorious services.

In asking Mr Hubbard to accept an easy chair as a token of the esteem in which he was held throughout the service Mr Barry said he wished to convey to him and to Mrs Hubbard their very best wishes for continued good health and leisure in which to enjoy a well earned rest

Mr Hubbard, who suitably replied, was appointed in 1899 to the Department. He was stationed in Nelson for seven years and was then transferred to the Wairarapa where he had held office for the past 33 years, thus establishing a record for an officer of the Department stationed continuously in one district.

Mr W. D. L. MacDonald has been appointed to succeed Mr Hubbard in the Wairarapa district and has now taken up his duties.