AFTER FORTY YEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 11

AFTER FORTY YEARS

MR. D. RODIE TO RETIRE

RAILWAY DEPARTMENT

The retirement is announced of Mr. D. Eodie, commercial manager., of, the Eailway Department,.after forty years' service. He is to be succeeded by Mr. A. W. Wellsted, chief clerk in the commercial branch. Mr. Eodie joined.the railway service as a cadet in the traffic branch. He was district traffic manager in Ihvercargill in 1924, when he was selected to take charge of the. commercial j branch in Wellington as commercial manager when that phaso of the Department's administration was'organised as a separate branch. At a meeting of the Government Railways Board this week the chairman (Mr. H. H. Sterling) and _ the members of the board made'eulogistic j reference to Mr. Eodie's career in; the' Department. They expressed warm appreciation of the work which he had accomplishd.as commercial manager and voiced their keen regret at losing his services. Mr. Wellsted joined-the railway service in 1900 as cadet in the traffic branch in Dunedin. . He was appointed to the position of business agent in the commercial branch in 1925, and occupied that position in the Auckland district until 1932, when he was appointed chief clerk to the commercial manager and transferred to Wellington. While in Auckland Mr. Wellsted was largely responsible for consolidating the business of the Department in that area.