RAILWAY SERVICE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18014, 5 March 1924, Page 8

RAILWAY SERVICE.

MR J. B. MITCHELL'S RETIREMENT. Mr J. B. Mitchell, District Traffic Manager of Railways at Christchurch, has definitely decided to retire from the service on the 31st inst. Mr Mitchell was among a number of railway officers who having completed forty years' seme© were due to retire, but later it was announced that owing to his value to the.Department it w;is doubtful whether he would bt* retired aiter all. Mr Mitchell has now himself decided to retire

Joining the Railway Department at Dunedin at the ago of 13, under Mr W. M. Hannah, District Traffic Superintendent and Assistant General Manager, Mr Mitchell was subsequently transferred to Wellington, but after soma years returnecf to Dunedin In 1804 he was made chief traffic' clerk j* Port Oialmers, and afterwards went back to Dunedin for a short term. Soon after lie was made audit inspector for Dunedin and Southland. The next two years he spent as chief traffic clerk at Invercargill In 1915 he was transferred to U elhngton as cbief clerk m the traffic manager's office. After being promoted to the position of assistant traffic manager he spent six months m Dunedin m the ity. In 1920 he went* cluef traffic manager. i n ]()W € sakftMftA trlffie manager ' rit c h ","

th f S"'»«! has made himself well-liked i n circles «nce his arrival in Ch^SX