OBITUARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9306, 23 March 1907, Page 5

OBITUARY.

-«•- MR W. GRAY. There will be general regret throughout the postal service and the country as a whole at the announcement <of the death of Mr W. Gray, Secretary of the General Pont Office of New Zealand. Mr Gray had been in weak health for some time past, and it was xmly too -plainly pen that Ms. career was closing, but the trip to the Postal C<mference at Rome last year seemed to have done' him a great deal of good. During the past ' month or twy>, however, he had relansied into & weak i state, and the end came rather suddenly bin Friday night. Mr Gray was one <tf the oldest civil servants of the colony. At a comparatively early age he succeeded to tbe highest position in the Postal Department, and it is not too much t«, say that he impressed <m the department many of his own characteristics, promptness, energy, firmness and courtesy. He was j> very fine type tf public servant, and he had a «reat influence in building up tho efficiency of the Postal Department. LPRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, Maich 23. The death occurred at midnight of Mr W Gray, Secretary of the Post Office. He had been connected with the Department for over forty y«urs. Born m Aberdeen in "844, Le came to the colony wl-en a boy coiT.ptet.ing his studios at New Plymouth. Hia first experiences were in a newspaper office,- but in 1864 he joined the Postal Department at Dunedin, and ten,: years later became Secretary of the Postal Department, and fox «wM«nlg, this important potion. His healthhad bfeea failing for some time. Apart irom has officiaa position he was weU known thioughout the colony as « | bowler, rand was unanimously liked and reI spocted. _«————

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