STAFF CHANGES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 12

STAFF CHANGES

New Zealand Shipping

Company

FIFTY YEARS’ SERVICE

Mr. W. Beauchamp

Retiring

Mr C. M. 't'urrel'i, general managel of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, announces that consequent, upon tlie retirement at tlie end ot tlie present year of -Mr. W. Beauchamp, chief accountant of tlie company in New Zealand, after 50 years’ service, the following staff changes will oe made: — ■ , Mr. W. ’Tweedie, accountant in tin. Wellington branch office, is appointed chief accountant in New Zealand at head office, Wellington. Mr. F. W. G. Uoddinott, accountant in*the Dunedin branch office, to be accountant at Wellington branch Mr II G. Carr, who has been attached to*the homeward freight department in the Wellington branch office, to be accountant at the Dunedin blanch. Mr W. Beauchamp, who yesterday completed 50 years of continuous service with tlie New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd., joined the staff in Wellington on December 9, 1888. At that time the staff of the company in Wellington numbered five —the late Captain Henry Rose (manager), the late Air. Robert Dunlop, the late Mr. Huntly Eliott, Air. W. J. Cotterill and Air. Beauchamp. Today, the combined staffs of the company’s head office and the Wellington branch, including the stevedoring and carpentering departments, number 77. After serving lor nearly 20 years in Wellington, Air. Beauchamp was transferred as cashier to the bead office of tlie company, which was then in Christchurch.

A few years trft.er Air. Beauchamp joined the company’s service in Wcllington a long and close association coinmenced between him and tlie present general manager of the company, Air. C. Al. Turrell, who then had been transferred from the Auckland branch to Wellington.

Air. Beauchamp was cashier in Christchurch for five years and was then transferred to tlie Napier branch as accountant under Air. J. 1. Cato, manager, and after live years in Napier was appointed manager for tlie New Zealand Shipping Company in Gisborne, and later controlled both tlie New Zealand Shipping Company and Union Steam Ship Company at that port. During Air. Beauchamp's time in Gisborne the. Arahnra. and later Hie Mararoa. used to call off the port to disembark and embark passengers, who were carried by these vessels between Auckland, Tokomaru Bay, Gisborne and Napier.

In September, 1924, Mr. Beauchamj) was appointed cliicf accountant at. Hie head office of the New Zealand Shipping Company in 'Wellington, which jiosition he has held since and from which Im will retire on December 31. It is the intention of Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp to leave on a triji to England by the company’s new Rimutaka in February.

Mr. W. Tweedie joined Hie service of tlie New Zealand Shipping Company in Napier on November 5, 1906. When Hie war broke out in August. .1914, Mr. Tweedie entered canqi and left for overseas with tlie Main Body of tlie New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Ho was wounded at Hie commencement, of Hie Gallijioli campaign ami returned to New Zealand by the Willochra in July, 1915. He re-entered Hie company’s Napier office in November, 1915, as chief sliijiping clerk, subsequently serving as accountant, and was transferred to Hie Wellington branch as accountant in December, 192.", under Hie managership of Mr. M. Turrell.

Ilalf-ceulury of Progress. During his half-century of service with the New Zealand Shipping'Company. Mr. Beauchamp has seen a marvellous advance in the company’s affairs. When he Joined its staff in ISSS. its first steamers had been running between Dondon and New Zealand for barely four years. They were,the Tonga rifo. Aorangi, Ruapehu. RimuInkti Kaikoura. The remainder O f the company's licet then comprised small clipper sailing ships. The frozen meat trade was in its infancy, the first shipments having been made m sailing ships in 1882. Mr. Beauchamp Ims seen the growth of Hie company's Heel from sailing ships through several ■•generations" of steamers to the present grent and powerful motor-liners of 17.000 lons. At the present time the fleet of the New Zealand Shipping Company numbers 21 motor and steam ships, totalling 211.615 lons gross register, and that of its associate, the Federal Steam Navigation Co.. Ltd.. 17 motor and steam ships of 175.1(1.”. tons, it total of 38 ships aggregating 35G.77.8 tons, making one of the largest shipping concerns in the world.

Mr. Beauchamp has seen many eliimges in the affairs of the shipping

= - I companies and the watertrout in Mel- I lington. M'hen he joined its staff in | ISB.S. the Now Zealand Shipping Com- : pauy was housed in a wooden building . on Customhouse Quay where the I niou I Steam Ship Company's mine building I now stands, the latter company being I then at the corner of Grey and Icatb- . erston Streets on the site occupied to- ; day by the National Bank of New I Zealand. In 1888 the New Zealand I.oan ami Mercantile Agency Co.. Eld., had its office on the site now occupied by the Bank of Australasia, the back portion of the building standing on piles in the sea. ’Pho new Government Dife Insurance building is the third that Mr. Beauchamp has seen on that site, the first being a small wooden structure. He recalls, 100, that the tramway wait-ing-rooms and offices in that localitystand on reclaimed land on what was 50 years ago the boat, harbour and watermen’s steps. •