UNIQUE POSITION

Evening Star, Issue 25633, 6 November 1945, Page 3

UNIQUE POSITION

— " ' ■ ■ TRIBUTE TO MRS W. KOFOED WORK AT POWER SUBSTATION Mrs W. Kofoed, wife of the Electricity Department’s sub-station attendant at Outram, was the subject of a tribute from Cr W. B. Taverner at last night’s meeting of the City Council. “ Mrs Kofoed’s position was, I understand, unique in electricity departments throughout New Zealand,” commented Mr Taverner. “ Her duties were to assist her husband about the station, to answer the telephone in his absence and so forth. Very often, however, her work was of a very much more 'important character, and pertained to the engineering side, this particularly in time of emergency.” Mrs Kofoed has suffered a stroke which prevents her continuing in her employment. Despite the fact that she was \ employed only in a part-time capacity, the council granted the maximum retiring allowance of 26 weeks’, pay. She had boen employed for 42 years. The Mayor, Mr D. C. Cameron, qommented that Mrs Kofoed was perhaps better known as the mother of Wing-