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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25227, 4 July 1947, Page 6

Personal Items

Forty years’ service in the New Zealand police force came to an end on Monday with the retirement of ChiefDetective P. J. Doyle, of Wellington. Mr Doyle began his police service at Birmingham in England and then served with the Imperial Forces in the South African War. He joined the New Zealand Police Force at Wellington and was later transferred to Auckland and then to the Hamilton police district, where he was in charge of the Te Awamutu sub-district. He was transferred to the detective branch, in which position he worked on the Mareo case. He returned to Wellington to undertake special war work and remained in that post until his retirement.—(P.A.)

Mr E. T. Beaven was appointed by the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last evening as one Of its two representatives on the Tunnel Road Promotion Committee. Mr G. H. Wood is the other representative. Mr A. Melville, of the Wellington Drivers’ Union, has been elected secretary of the New Zealand Drivers’ Federation to succeed Mr F. C. Allerby, who will take his seat next week on the Court of Arbitration bench as the workers’ representative.—(P.A.) Mr J. N. Wickens, assistant district rehabilitation officer in Wellington, is acting as district officer in Christchurch during the absence of Mr J. Moore, who is on sick leave.

After 40 years’ service, two officials of the Post and Telegraph Department who joined the service at Ashburton on June 4, 1907. retired on Tuesday. Mr J. Turner, manager of the Post Office Savings Bank in Wellington, served at Christchurch, Timaru, Invercargill. Blenheim, Oamaru, Gisborne and Napier. In 1929 he was appointed examiner at Dunedin and in 1933 accountant at Timaru. He also occupied a similar position in Palmerston North. Mr W. P. Montgomery, who has retired as assistant manager of the clerical branch, also joined the department in Ashburton at the same time. In 1909 he was transferred to Wellington. Mr Montgomery was promoted senior clerk in 1929 and assistant supervisor in 1946. Mr and Mrs W. Hughes (Reefton) have received advice that their younger son, Flight Lieutenant Cyril Hughes, has received a commission in the Royal Air Force. Flight Lieutenant Hughes, who was born in Reefton, enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and after training in New Zealand and England was seconded for duty with the Occupational Air Force in Europe, where he has been serving since V-E Day For service on a troopship on which he was travelling to England, and which was torpedoed. Flight Lieutenant Hughes was specially mentioned for his splendid rescue work. He is expected to return to New Zealand later in the year for furlough.