OFFICER RETIRING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 12

OFFICER RETIRING

POSTMASTER AT MASTERTON

(Special to the "Evening Post")

MASTERTON, This Day.

On completing forty years' service with the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. I. I. McGregor, who has been postmaster at Masterton since 1931, is retiring at the end of this month. ■ Mr. McGregor in recent. years has played a particularly active and enterprising part in the Children's Health Stamp campaign. He was a foundation member and for two years has been captain of the Mahunga Golf Club. He is a valued member, ex officio, of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the committee of the Church of England Men's Society. Mr. McGregor joined the P. and T. Department at Akaroa in 1897 and after qualifying as a telegraphist was transferred in 1901 to Naseby. He served later as a telegraphist in Reef ton and Nelson. In 1916 he was promoted from Nelson to be instructor of the Girls' Telegraph School atDunedin, organised as a war measure. When the school was closed in 1917, Mr. McGregor took up duty as assistant superintendent in the District Telegraph Engineers' office, Wellington, where he remained until 1922. He then became postmaster at Lower Hutt. From that office he was promoted 'in 1926 to be postmaster at Gore and he has been postmaster at Masterton since 1931.