Tourist men to retire

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34099, 11 March 1976, Page 10

Tourist men to retire

Two district managers of the Government Tourist Bureau, .Messrs D. C. M. Bailey and A. A. Connolly, will retire this month.

Mr Bailey, the Auckland district manager for eight years, began with the de-

partment as a cadet in 1935, and worked in Auckland until 1947, when he was promoted to Christchurch. In 1950 he became district manager for Invercargill, jand six years later he ‘moved to Sydney. In 1965. Mr Bailey was appointed assistant director of the tourist division at the head office in Wellington, after having been district manager of the Wellington bureau for four years. In 1968, he became district manager in Auckland. He is succeeded by Mr W. Scott, district manager of the Christchurch Government Tourist Bureau. Mr Connolly, who is district manager of the bureau in Dunedin, joined the New Zealand Railways in 1933, and transferred after the war to the Tourist and Publicity Department’s head office tn Wellington. He worked there until 1962. when he was posted to the Sydney office as a senior travel officer. I Mr Connolly returned to II Wellington in 1967, as a -jtour planning officer, and

became divisional ofticer ir the head office. He was promoted tn dis tnct manager in Dunedn ■ two years later.