Retiring
Sir James Fletcher, aged 79, chairman of directors of the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company, will retire this month. He has been chairman since the company was incorporat ed in 1952.
He is a former Commissioner of Defence Construction and New Zealand’s first Commissioner of Works.
The Fletcher organisation, which had its beginnings in 1909, has grown into one of the country’s biggest and most important industrial complexes. Sir James Fletcher arrived in New Zealand in 1908 with a set of carpenter’s tools, but little money. The first cottage the founder of the building empire built in Dunedin is still standing.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 1
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102Retiring Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 1
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