FORTY YEARS’ SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 10

FORTY YEARS’ SERVICE

Chief Postmaster Retires Mr. 11. G. Davis, who lias been chief postmaster at Nelson for the past two and a half years, is retiring on superannuation after 40 years’ service. Mr. Dftvis, who has left for Christchurch on holiday, before officially leaving the department was presented with a travelling rug and a suitcase as a mark of the esteem in which he was held by the staff, and Mrs. Davis was presented with a crystal bowl. Mr. Davis joined the service as message boy in April, 1592, and in 1896 was sent as a telegraph cadet to assist with the extra work at Greymouth caused by the Brunner disaster. Afterward. for some fifteen years, he was in offices on the West Coast before transferring to Christchurch as chief clerk at the telegraph ollice in 1919. In 1921 Mr. Davis was appointed postmaster at Rangiora, and in 192i> chief postmaster at Westport. Three more years saw him in a similar position at Greymouth, and in 1930 he went to Nelson as chief postmaster. Mr. H. T. Dawson, of Thames, is under notice of transfer to Nelson to fill the vacancy, but in the meantime Mr- E. R. Blewett, chief accountant at Nelson, will act as chief postmaster.