POSTAL PROMOTION

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 149, 20 March 1931, Page 8

POSTAL PROMOTION

Head of Auckland Office MR. S. HARRISON’S CAREER Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, March 19. Mr. S. M. Harrison, chief postmaster at Dunedin, who has been promoted to a similar position at Auckland and leaves for the north on Saturday, received his education at Christchurch and joined the service in that city as a telegraph messenger in 1895. After fit e years there, during which time he was also distributor, be went to Wellington as a eadet in the stores branch in 1900. In the same year he was selected for transfer to the dead letter branch. He gradually rose in the service and in 1916 he was appointed to the charge of the branch, two years later being placed in charge of the chief inspector’s office. In 1919 Mr. Harrison was promoted to the position of principal of the postal division of the General P >at Office. Wellington, which post he held until 1928, when he received further promotion to the position of chief postmaster, Dunedin. Mr. Harrison will be succeeded here by Mr. J. P. P. Clouston, who is at present supervisor of the staff division at the General Post Office, Wellington. Presentations were made to Mr. Harrison to-day by the respective branches of the Post and Telegraph service. Mr. D ,M. Mclntosh, postmaster at Hastings, has been appointed chief postmaster at Napier, in succession to Mr. B. E. S. Brodie, who is retiring on superannuation at the end of this month. Mr. Mclntosh will take up his new duties at Napier on April 1. Mr. W. IV. Sutton! postmaster at Hawera, has been appointed to be postmaster at Hastings, vice Mr. Mclntosh. Mr. D. C. P. Hamlin, senior supervisor of the telegraph branch, Napier, will have completed 40 years’ service on March 31 next, and retires on superannuation. Mr. Hamlin joined the telegraph department as a message boy in Napier in February, 1891.