POSTAL OFFICER

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1940, Page 7

POSTAL OFFICER

MR. L. L. HILLS RETIRES

A large gathering of officers of all] sections of the Post and Telegraph Department assembled to say farewell to Mr. L. L. Hills, Divisional Director,, who retired on superannuation after 40 years and 7 months' service a fewdays ago. Mr. J. S. Young, the DirectorGeneral, expressed regret at the necessity for parting with a valued. associate, and said that Mr. Hills had stayed on beyond the time when he wished to retire in order, to complete two important tasks or.' which he was engaged. ~..-• Mr. Young outlined Mr. Hills's career in the Department, which, he said, was' a very impressive one. . Mr. Hills joined the Department as a telegraph messenger at Hokitika. on March 14, 1900. After being stationed at Wellington and Hastings he' returned to Hokitika in 1902 and remained on the West Coast until 1921,,whea he was appointed supervisor in the .accounts section of the Post and Telegraph workshops. Later, on the establishment of the Public Service garage at Wellington, Mr. Hills was specially selected to act as supervisor. In 1928, after serving for several years with distinction on the Promotion Board as officers' representative, Mr. Hills was transferred to the position of staff inspector. He was, in turn, principal of the staff division, chief inspector and \ principal, staff division, and on April 1, 1939, when positions of divisional directors were created, he was appointed to one of these important offices, with control of the staff.

Mr. Hills, in replying, thanked Mr. Young for the references he made *to his services and for the expressions of good will that Mr. Young had conveyed.