PRESENTATION.
POSTAL LINE FOREMAN. AM INTERESTING CAREER. (By TelegTaph—Own Correspondent) TAURAXGA, this day. In the presence of a number of friends of the recipient, the Mayor last night presented the Imperial service medal to Mr. James Alexander MeKeniie who recently retired from the position of line foreman of the Postal Department after forty-two years' meritorious service. iScvera! speakers eulogised Mr. McKenzie's services, and expressed the esteem in which he is held as a citizen. The recipient joined the service in Auckland in 1877. put a line through Auckland to Herd's Point, then the line from New Plymouth to Waitara, and next from Hokitika through to Beaky towards Christchurch. Later he carried a ladder from Wellington to Opctiki. seeing to insulators on every pole, and afterwards constructed the first line from Taupo to Cambridge, then the fine •to Maeterton, coming here twenty-ejx years ago.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 279, 23 November 1921, Page 4
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