NEW TOWN CLERK

Northern Advocate, 7 November 1932, Page 4

NEW TOWN CLERK

INVERCARGILL POSITION. MR ORANGE’S SUCCESSOR. (Special to “Northern Advocate. - ') INVERCARGILL, November 5, The Invercargill Borough Council, at a special meeting, appointed Mr W. F. Stunnan, at present town elerk of Petone, to lie town clerk of Invercargill, in succession to Mr C. ,L. Grange, who is now Commissioner for Thames Borough. Mr Sturman will commence his new duties at tho beginning of the year. Twenty years with the Petone Borough Council is the record of Mr Walter Frederick Sturman. Besides being town clerk of Petone, he occupies at present the positions of secretary to the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Lighting Board, secretary to the Petone Fire Board, and secretary to the Hutt Park Committee. Mr Stur-. man was born in London in 1890, and came to New Zealand with his parents, the late Mr and Mrs Walter Sturman, in 1900. At the age of 18 Mr Sturman obtained a position in an office at Wodvillo, and later he joined the office staff of the Woodville Borough Council, whore he rose to the position of assistant town clerk. He joined the Petone Borough Council staff' in 1912, being assistant town clerk for eight years and then attaining his present position. For some, years Mr Sturman has been chairman of the executive of the Towm Clerks’ Institute of New Zealand, and few men in the Dominion have such a comprehensive grasp of local body affairs and such municipal executive ability. Golf and tennis claim Mr Sturman’s spare-time. His wife was formerly Miss Nancy Curtis, New Zealand woman tennis champion and the holder of the New South Wales title.