MR NOEL LAVER’S RETIREMENT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25282, 6 September 1947, Page 2

MR NOEL LAVER’S RETIREMENT

50 YEARS IN COMMERCIAL LIFE Fifty years’ service with the firm of John Chambers and Son, Ltd., have been completed by Mr Noel Laver, manager of the Christchurch branch and a director of the company, who has retired from the former position. He will be succeeded in Christchurch by Mr Roy F. Henderson, formerly manager of the Dunedin branch. After 12 years of service with the company in Auckland, Mr Laver was transferred to Christchurch in 1910, to open the branch. He has been the Christchurch manager ever since, and for the last 30 years has been a director of the company. Although Mr Laver has retired from active participation in the company, he retains his position as senior director and trustee of the Chambers family in the Chambers estate. Mr Laver has been for a long time a member of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. He is president of the Canterbury Engineers Merchants’ Supply Association and is a member of the committee of Consolidated Importers, Ltd., a Government-formed organisation. He was twice president of the Tube Guild. . Mr Laver has been president of both the Beckenham and Cashmere Bowling Clubs. He is a past-preSident of the Cashmere Masonic Lodge. A complimentary social to Mr Laver will be held this evening by the staff of John Chambers and Son, Ltd., those attending including Mr S. R. Lowden, general manager of the company, aha managers of branches throughout New Zealand.