Clerk retires after 40 years

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34085, 24 February 1976, Page 17

Clerk retires after 40 years

The “grand old man” of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, the Lyttelton office manager (Mr Denis Clibborn) will retire on Friday after 40 years with the board.

Mr Clibborn is one of several long-service men who have retired from the board in the last three months. He joined the board in 1936 as a junior clerk at Lyttelton and apart from an 18-month Istint in Christchurch between :1938 and 1939, he has reimained in Lyttelton holding 'a variety of clerical positions. Since 1960 he has been the | Lyttelton office manager. "in recent years Mr Clibborn has been prominent in [Lyttelton championing the cause of the Time Ball Staitien. For the last five years |he has been secretary of the ! Lyttelton Maritime Associaition and for the last two • years he has been collecting research material on the old ’building.

• This he hopes to turn into ia 100-page book on the staition within the next two I years. ! Mr Clibborn’s friends and 'well-wishers will stage an in- ! formal farewell gathering at [Lyttelton’s British Hotel later [this week. ARRIVALS 1 Coastal Trader (9.42 a.m.), 2500. [Capt. R. Tindall. Auckland (Shipping Corp, of N.Z.). Erne (12.30 p.m.), 13,728. Capt. D. Morrison, Tauranga (U.S.S.). Holmdale (6 a.m.). 911, Capt. ' E. Warner. Chatham Islands fU.S.S ). DE PARTURES Hawea ( p.m.), 2926. Capt J. Jenkins. Wellington (U.S.S.L Coastal .Trader i p.m.). 2500, Capt. R. Tindall Dunedin (Shipping Corp, of N.Z.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS W. H. Orbell. Timaru, today. Coastal Trader, Timaru, Februi ary 25. Mav Prince, February 25, iStraat Frazer, February 25. Hawea. Wellington, February 25.

[Chevron Venice. Persian Gulf. February 26. Soochow. Wellington. February 26. Vishva Mahima. Wellington. February 27. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Hawea. Wellington, today. Erne. Timaru, today. [Natko Nodelo. today. W H. Orbell. todaj. [lron York, today. Coastal Trader. Auckland. February 25. Hawea, Dunedin. February 25. Woosung, Tauranga. February Chevron Venice, Wellington, February 27. jSoochow. Tauranga. February 28. VESSELS IN PORT Woosung. Cashin Quay \o. 1 (Private John R. Toyvle. Cashin Quay No. 3. iHolmdale No 3 East Asahi Maru No. 6. No. 3 East. Gou Maru No. 16, No. 4 East. Iron York. No. 4 West. Tangryu Maru No 26, No. 6 West. Natko Nodelo, No. 7 East. i Erne, oil wharf iKairyu Maru No. 21. cattle jetty