A NEW POSITION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 4

A NEW POSITION.

./<; INSPECTOR OF - SAVINGS BANKS. ; :'V,Amongst tlio list of appointments and proconnection with the Post and; TelegraphvDepartment was that of Mr. R. 13. ,l\lqrvjs : : to be Inspector of Savings Banks—a new 'position.' .Hitherto this work lias been', inspectors whose dutiesVliavif'ft.generalapplication, but.'-th\ .rapidi- : growth; Government Savings- ■ Balik' : b-iisiriesfctlirougliout the Dominion' has of an official,, whose' > tiiriefxill bs opcupiecl'. solely in inspecting the Savings Banks' of New Zealand, and in. bring-ing-jaboxifc jiiiii forniity. of method in book iaiul vreporcl-kceping. In this .regard cprtairi •geiierar'. rules worp laid down many years. . .'iigo^/rind. thoso rules are strictly obeyed, but ■ :.therb,.aro more ways of obeying a rule than '; oji'oyi and a part of Air. Morris's now duties Ml be to bring all methods into lino to the smallest detail. Mr. Morris entored;tho servico of tho Post' and.' 'Telegraph Department in 1875 at; • and, after serving three years of his ■cadetship there, ho was' transferred.- to . Ohristchurch, whore ho, remained until 18S9, - ■-'in..which'.year ho wiis'transferred to Auck'..'second money,-order clerk. After. . three,-years, in that pity, lie was moved to •Wellington to perform similar duties, succeed-' • 'ing .to-tjiovposition ofr'chicf money-order clerk' ' "oji.tho of Mr. E. T. Morshead , (now 'living in New'Plymoiith).' In 1903 lie ; -Was'.transferred to Cliristehureh, remaining ' tiicro .uiitil last year, when ho was promoted •to be Assistant Postmaster at Wellington, a. ' position ho is to . bo-'Suceeeded in by Mr. : '• 6annawaynsJ)uririi£ lias term of service,. Mr... Morris ha 3 made trips to San 'Francisco as Government mail agent, and has a wide general knowledge of Postal and Savings Bank matters.