WELL-PAID POST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 5 September 1939, Page 15

WELL-PAID POST

FORMER GISBORNE BOY MELBOURNE MANAGERSHIP DAIRY INDUSTRY EXPERT

A former resident of Poverty Bay, who received his early training in his profession while in the employ of the Kai Ora Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, is to take up shortly a post in Melbourne that carries a salary running well into tour figures, Tne ex-Gisoorneite is Mr. Harold E. Roberts, whose father lived for 30 years in the Manutuke area.

Mr. Harold Roberts has been appointed general manager for .tne Melbourne firm of Trufoods, Limited, having been selected for the position from a total of 04 applicants after interviews in New Zealand and at the headquarters of the Australian company. He will leave New Zealand at the end of September to take up his new duties.

He spent his boyhood in Manutuke, and attended the primary school there, entering the employ of tiie Kia Ora Company after school, and working under the managership of Mr. R. Newitt, who resigned a few years ago. After five years in that post, Mr. Roberts secured a position with the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company, and spent another five years there before transferring to the Waikato Co-operative Company.

After eight months with the latter company, Mr. Roberts left for France with the 14ft Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and during his active service he was twice wounded. He was invalided home early in 1918.

Regaining his health, he returned to the Waikato after the war, and entered the dried milk industry. For the past 20 years, he has been with the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, and has been manager oi the Waharoa and Te Awamutu factories ' for six and four years respectively.

Former associates of Mr. Roberts in this district will hope for continued success in his career overseas.