HIGHWAYS BOARD
PRESENTATION TO MR. WOOD
At Wednesday's meeting of the Main Highways Board the opportunity was taken to farewell Mr. J. Wood, chairman of the board, who, in his position as Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secre-tary of the Public Works Department, is to retire shortly on superannuation
Mr. Wood, who has been a member of the board since 1925 and chairman for the last four and a half years, has been closely connected with practically all the highways improvement work since the board's inception.
In extending to Mr. Wood their deep appreciation of his work as chairman, members of the board spoke of his unfailing courtesy and fairness and of the happy relations that had always existed between them. As a memento of the esteem in whic^i they held him, the members presented Mr. Wood with two air-travel cases and a fountain pen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 5
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