MR P. W. DONALDSON TO RETIRE
TELEGRAPH SUPERINTENDENT AT CHRISTCHURCH
The Christchurch superintendent of the telegraph branch of the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr P. W. Donaldson) will retire at the end of this month after 40 years’ service. Mr Donaldson joined the department at Gore in 1908 as a message boy and was promoted as a cadet there in 1910. He served in the New Zealand forces in World War I, with the Aus-
tralian and New Zealand Wireless Squadron in Mesopotamia and the New Zealand Divisional Signals in France and Germany. He returned to Wellington in 1919. Promoted to telegraph supervisor at Timaru in 1925, after being at the Awarua radio station and Invercargill. Mr Donaldson was telephone manager at Dunedin in 1938 and later superintendent of the telegraph branch at Dunedin in 1944. He has been superintendent at Christchurch since 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 8
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