RAILWAY SERVICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 190, 14 July 1941, Page 6

RAILWAY SERVICE.

CONTROL OF WORKSHOPS.

(P A.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 14. Mr P. R. Angus, locomotive superintendent of file Railway Department, Wellington, has been appointed chief mechanical engineer, and in that capacity takes control of the workshops and locomotive running branches. He will be assisted by Mr 11. W. Dallison, manager of tho Addington Workshops, who has been appointed Workshops Superintendent, 'Wellington. Announcing these appointments today, Mr Semple said it had been decided to re-establish unified control of the workshops and locomotive running branches. For some years past these branches have been controlled as separate units by the Superintendent or Workshops and the Locomotive Superintendent, respectively, but in future both sections will be under the control of the Chief Mechanical Engineer, this being the organisation which obtained prior to 1931. .Mr Angus joined the department in 1910 and was appointed locomotive engineer at Greymoutli in 1921. In 1921 he was transferred to the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s office, Wellington, and following a brief term as locomotive engineer at Christchurch in 1926 was appointed Assistant-Chief Mechanical Engineer in November of that year. Since December, 1931, lie lias been Locomotive Superintendent in charge of the locomotive running branch department. Mr Dallison joined the department in 1903, commencing his service at the Addington Workshops. He was appointed workshop loreman at Invercargill in 1929 and from 1930 to 1936 he held important supervisory positions at the Hutt Workshops until taking up the position of works manager at Addington, which ho has occupied since October, 1936.