POSTAL CHANGES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 38, 14 February 1912, Page 8

POSTAL CHANGES

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS. The following promotions and transj fers have been approved by the Pest- ■ master-General : — ! Promotions—Mr. J. J. Pickett, postmaster, Taurangu, to be chief postmaster, Thames, vice Air. H. Logic. to be retired $ Mr. A. Benner, "peetmaster, Patea,- to be • postmaster, Whangarei ; Mi*. ■F. J. liubertshaw, . poatrnatster, Whangarei, to be postmaster, Tauranga ; Air. T. Pope, telegraphist, luvercargill, to bo postmaster, Arrowtown : Mr. W. F. Kennedy, senior clerk, Hastings, to be postmaster, Pa tea. Transfer*- Mr. ii. G. Youngman, pestmaster, Amnvtowh, to Akaroa, vice Mr. W. A. Harding, to be retired ; Ml 1 . 1). U. Suetins, postmaster, Cheviot, to go to Carterton; Mr. A. Ramsay, oenior clerk, Cm-tenon, tie be MMiior cleik, Hastings.

Ratoa .amounting to £2000 have been paid lo the Mu*torl&a Boj'uugu Council •iese. M Jtyiuuiv. J

The eleamor Maunganui, which arrived t»-day, is equipped with a 1^ kilowatt standard Marconi wireless set. Tho operator, Mr. V. Gardiner, told a, Poet reporter that from England to South Africa, ho was never out of communication with other wireles* vessels or stations, but after losing Durban, when he was diotant about 1100 miles, he heard no vessei until he received signals from the Ballarat leaving Melbourne. He had no communication with Macquarrio Island.