CHIEF POSTMASTER RETIRES
[Per Press Association. Copyright .] AUCKLAND, This Day. Retirement of Mr. J. P. P. Clouston, Chief Postmaster at Auckland, is announced as from December 31. This afternoon farewell presentations were made by the staff. Mr. Clouston was born at the Orkney Islands in 1881, educated at Fifeshire, Scotland, and came with his parents to New Zealand in 1897. He attended the Devonport School and later lived at Waiuku, where his father, Dr. J. Clouston, practised. He joined the P. and T. Department at Waiuku and was subsequently at Christchurch, Auckland and Hamilton, and was appointed postmaster at Devonport in 1921. He was Chief Postmaster at Dunedin in 1931, coming to Auckland in 1934 to take up the same position here. He has taken an active interest in public affairs and ! , j sport.
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Northern Advocate, 18 December 1936, Page 8
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134CHIEF POSTMASTER RETIRES Northern Advocate, 18 December 1936, Page 8
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