RETIRING NEXT YEAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1941, Page 5

RETIRING NEXT YEAR

PRESENTATION TO MR. CABLE

Mr. M. Cable, M.1.E.E., A.M.1.M.E., will retire from the position of General Manager of the Tramways and Electricity Departments of the Wellington City Corporation at the end of January. At the conference of transport authorities in Wellington yesterday, Mr. A. E. Ford, Auckland tramways manager, presented Mr. Cable with a solid gold wristlet watch, as a token of the esteem in which he was held by transport people throughout the Dominion. Mr. Ford referred to the valuable services Mr. Cable had rendered to tramway administration over a long period of years, and said they wished to show their appreciation of his many good qualities as an administrator, executive officer, and engineer of standing. Born in Dunedin in 1874, Mr. Cable was educated, at the Union Street and Normal Schools, Dunedin, and University College. London. He was apprenticed to marine and mining engineering at Port Chalmers, and was engaged for some years on the installation of goldmining plants in Otago. He went to England, where he continued his training at Siemens electrical works at Woolwich, working there from 1899 till 1902. He was then appointed asr sistant engineer to,the Brompton and Kensington Electric Supply Company, Earl's Court, and in 1904 became assistant engineer and manager of the tramway department of the Reading Corporation, England. In 1907 he was appointed assistant electrical engineer to the Wellington City Corporation and has been General Manager of its Tramway and Electricity Departments since 1924. He is! the author of several engineering papers.