VARIED OFFICIAL CAREER

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14639, 7 April 1948, Page 2

VARIED OFFICIAL CAREER

FORMER I " ’'42s Retirement p rto . I Many FieldT 0f , j Covered | ranga, Mr A hlS*® it Uon SU o fXf“Si\ S Plymouth. Mr 2f !l 5 leave on K where he intends study of commercial hope later to return rt ' h New Zealand. n Once instructor i n general knowledge at pondence school coi S employees by the Sf te H graph Department, £ had an official career than usual. It was passed the departm P 2 et ation that he was ann^ 5 post by Mr A T director-general, and hf? mg three years bSIJI 500 postal officials w e L him for m, • J nVest u igations Abroaj J hls him to 192 s i although New Zealand 311 pended on the Morset? graphy, big advaS'Sj made abroad with 1 printing. Impressed ft 1 ments in Europe. Mr Dig make investigations Visiting the big pest nff Australia, London and £ 9 bserved the various sys£ in vogue, saw newspaper J equipped with page teletypes, went to see Mr I Murray, i hG New i of the Murray Multiplex £ and inspected the Creed m Accumulating a great deal? formation about modern fl e ? ments in telegraphy, he was' to return to New Zealand 4 report for Mr M. E. jlankim meal instructor at the deppitr correspondence school. Fonext seven years Mr Davis sa the property division at the l office, dealing mainly with bi plans, equipment and land; chases under the supervision d John Robertson, then ass'" secretary of the department' Service in Cook Island; From that post Mr Davis wet another unusual experience. ] pointed postmaster at Harotc he was in the Cook Islands fori years and had the advantaged serving the admirable ads trative methods employed then Judge H. F. Ayson. It wash Cook Islands that Mr Davis mei Van Loon, the Anrnricmn au% artist with whom he formed!! long friendshrip. Returning to New Zealandin! he became supervisor in the Dei port post office and from there! to Newmarket as postmaster, year later he was given chit the Papakura office and there! came president of the Ret Services Association and p! association and a member el National Military Reserve, In he was promoted postmark Tauranga. Three years lata went to Hastings and a year wards he was advanced to theci tion of the New Plymouth c office. Early Days in Taranaki With his arrival at New;! mouth, Mr Davis achieved a! bition to return to the pro® which he started his post « career nearly 40 years before;k was at Toko that he went tost and it was to that town that i turned in 1908 as a post officer sage boy after attending the ford District High School,« under the headmastershipoA Tyrer. With a smiling refer® the wages now paid you® ning in the department, Mr recalled that his wages « were £26 a year. , From 'Toko he went after a i months to Waitara as a carrier. His wages. were rau« £SO a year, less Is in £1 « annuation; but the mcreos . far insufficient for him to - P self and have something S'! driven by necessity, he stu graphy, obtained a cadetsmp kaka and afterwards wen son as a telegraph opera • , Earlv in 1915 Mr Davis ;?.o Ist N.Z.E.F. and afterwards J in Egypt and France. In came back to New Ze to the Auckland c l lie *,L ae s an operator and studied » ancy at the university-