NAPIER TELEPHONE EXCHANGE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 24 August 1927, Page 3

NAPIER TELEPHONE EXCHANGE

STAFF CHANGES. The change-over to the automatic telephone system takes place in Napier on Sunday, and as only a small ■staff will be required, chiefly to operate the toll exchange, after that date, several transfers have had to be made. Six attendants, three male and three female, will remain to operate the toll exchanges, and the following transfers will be made: — Miss N. E. M. Keogh, promoted to ■ upervisor at Auckland. Miss G- L. Peebles retires.

Miss B. Howard, promoted to toll operator at New Plymouth. Miss E. R. Smale,' promoted to oil-operator at Wanganui. Miss A. M. Bonnor, transferred to New Plymouth Exchange. Miss I. M. Bonnor, transferred to Hastings. Mrs. J. E. Downs, transferred to Palmerston NorthMiss D. I. Fahey, transferred to Waipawa. Miss M. R. Lightband, transferred to Hastings. Miss A. D. Maddock, transferred to Gisborne.

Miss McGlone, transferred to Lower Hutt.

Messrs. A. H. J. Bromley, P. J. Greaney and W. Shirley are to be transferred to Hastings. Mr. H. A. Crowley, transferred to Waipukurau. Mr F. H. T. Harvey, transferred to Palmerston North.

Mr T- Plunket, transferred to Kaponga. The following will remain at Napier as day and night toll attendants: Misses L. D. May, B. B. Stairmand anr J. I. Fox, Messrs. R. Griffith, P. J. Ahearn and Roderique.

Messrs. R. E- N. Farrington, R. A. E. Elmes. M. W. Gosling, S. G. H. Jones and G. A. Clifton will be transferred to the postal staff at Napier.

All manner of schemes have been exploited in and around Sydney in connection with the selling of land, which has become an intensive business in the past few years. But it has remained for one ~rm to introduce an aeroplane as an aid to salesmanship, and the last word in land Inspection by prospective owners. The pioneers are Arthur Rickard and Company who announced this week that where landing grounds can be secured on their various estates, they will largely avail themselves of aeroplanes to show their clients the layout of their holdings in reianon to the surrounding country. Four youths—Sydney Peter Green, Thomas Newton, Thomas Graham, and Richard Leech—connected with a series of thefts and burglaries during the past four months, were sentenced by Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court at Gisborne yesterday morning. Leech, who had previously been in the Borstal Institution, was ordered to be sent back for a period not exceeding five years; Green was committed to the Borstal Institution for three years; and Newton and Graham were given two years’ probation.— Press Assn.