CHIEF POSTMASTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 27 September 1933, Page 6

CHIEF POSTMASTER.

PROMOTION TO CHRISTCHURCH. MR F. W. FURBY’S ADVANCEMENT. Tlie appointment of Mr F. W. Furby, Chief Postmaster at Palmerston North, to be Chief Postmaster at Christchurch, is announced in a Press Association telegram from Wellington. Mr Furby, it is stated, succeeds Mr F. J. Shanks, who has be'en promoted to be Second Assistant Secretary of the General Post Office. The vacancy at Palmerston North is being filled by the appointment of Mr Duncan Black, Chief Postmaster at Gisborne and formerly stationed at Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. Thirty-five years ago Mr Furby joined the head office of the Post and Telegraph Department at Wellington as a cadet, and earned rapid promotion. He was for ten years private secretary to Ministers of the Crown, including the late Sir Thomas Mackenzie and the late Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey. He remained at the head office until two and a half years ago, when he came to Palmerston North as Chief Postmaster. Congratulations from many friends will be extended to Mr Furby on his advancement to such an important position in the service as that which he will shortly take up. He has been a most efficient and courteous official, and is very popular at this centre, where he is a member of the council of the Chamber of Commerce, and had been appointed one of the central council to conduct the city queen carnival campaign. Formerly senior telegraph supervisor at Palmerston North two and a-half years ago, Mr F. G. Nind has been promoted from the position of Chief Postmaster at Oamaru to Chief Postmaster at Timaru. Ho will be succeeded at Oamaru by Mr H. Miller, postmaster at Marton.