MERITED RECOGNITION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 312, 23 December 1913, Page 4

MERITED RECOGNITION.

MR. S. F. HASZARD PROMOTED.

Air. S. F. Haszard, postmaster at Hastings, has received notice of his promotion to the position of Inspector of Post Offices in the Otago district. with headquarters at Dunedin. He wiil be succeeded at Hastings byMr. F. .Perrin, at present acting as assistant Inspector of Post Offices. Mr. Haszard joined the Post and Telegraph Department at Wellington in the year 1874, and after being stationed at Greymouth. .Auckland am] the Empire City, was in 1889 transferred to Hastings as clerk and telegraphist. The Hastings staff in those days consisted of Mr. D. A. Wright, who was stationmaster and postmaster combined, Air, Creagh. M present of the Electric Telegraph Office, Napier, and one letter carrier and cue messenger, and thepostal ami railway business was conducted in the same building, the railway station. This arrangement continued until 1893, v.hen owing to the removal of the railway* station, it was decided to provide the postal department with a separate building. and it was at this juncture. 1894, that Air. Haszard was appointed postmaster. Mr. Haszard has seen the business at the Hastings, post office expand from very small proportions, a few hundred pounds, to a period when the revenue has reached in the vicinity of five figures. The staff has increased from 4to *l4, and the telephone exchange which was opened in August, 1896. with a handful of subscribers, now has about 790.

The conscientious manner in which Mr. Haszard has discharged his duties has earned for him the esteem and goodwill of the community in general, and the news of his pending departure will lie received with mixed feelings —regret at; the loss of an able officer ami ot copgrni ulai ton mt his well-efirned promotion. Mr. Haszard will be. much missed in bowling circles in which he was a prominent figiire, and also in boxing matters i;> which he took a keen interest.

It is probable that. Air. Haszard will ly leaving for Outgo ?-arly in the New Year, but Airs Haszard. ttnc family will’ not lie g'ling seari lev some months. .