LONG SERVICE
CUSTOMS COLLECTOR RETIRES (By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tho Evenino Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. The days when a Government revenue sailing ship was maintained to prevent smuggling along the coast are within the service memory of Mr. A. V. Perm, Collector of Customs at Auckland, whose retirement, after forty-four service with the Department takes effect to-mor-row. In 1881 Mr. Perm arrived in Taranaki from England with his parents. Three \ years later he joined the Customs Department. After four years here he was transferred to the South Island, and spent twenty years at various ports there and in the lower half of. the North Island. In 1909 he returned to Auckland as landing surveyor, and' in that capacity and as sub-collector ho served until November, 1925, when he succeeded Mr. J. R. Ridings as Collector at "Auckland. Mr. Perm was met yesterday by representatives of the Customsliouse agents of Auckland, and presented with a silver tea and coffee service for Mrs. Perm and travelling trunk and rug for himself. i
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 9
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170LONG SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 9
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