SHIPPING FIRM’S RETURN TO EARLY ORGANISATION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 4

SHIPPING FIRM’S RETURN TO EARLY ORGANISATION

Reverting to its older practice, the New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, will as from March 1 next operate its own offices in Napier and Gisborne.

This move will occasion some changes in managerial personnel in the two centres, and Mr. K.’ W. Bull, now manager for the Union Steam Ship Company in Gisborne, has been appointed manager for the East Coast to supervise the New Zealand Shipping Company’s business. Prior to 1921 the New Zealand Shipping Company operated its own offices in most ports throughout New Zealand, including those on the East Coast. Three years after the close of the First World War it entered into an arrangement with the Union Company to share staff and office facilities, and this arrangement remained unchanged until late in 1947, when a gradual reversion to the pre-1921 conditions was initiated. Invercargill, Timaru, New Plymouth Invercargill, Timaru and New Plymouth have recently been restored to the old order,.with the two companies having their individual offices and staffs; and now Napier and Gisborne are to be re-converted in turn. Mr. Bull, who was with the New Zealand Shipping Company in Napier prior to the 1921 merger of staffs, has been manager of the joint office in Gisborne for the past 13 years, having succeeded Mr. H. V. Bell in that capacity in March, 1936. He will leave for Napier to take over his new duties as from March 1, and in the meantime will supervise the setting up of the New Zealand company’s offices in Gisborne under Mr. A. D. Deans, as sub-manager. In Napier he will later supervise the establishment of the company’s separate office and staff under Mr. D. A. Irwin, as acting-assistant local manager there. The vacancy in the Union Steam Ship Company’s managerial post at Gisborne created by Mr. Bull’s transfer will be filled by Mr. A. J. M. Leslie, at present branch mantger for the U.S.S. Company at Picton.