THE POST OFFICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 6

THE POST OFFICE

ADMINISTRATIVE HEADS NEW APPOINTMENTS MADE MR J. G. YOUNG’S PROMOTION j I United P'eAH Association 1 WELLINGTON. This Day. Two administrative appointments in the Post and Telegraph Department were announced last evening by the Postmaster-General, Mr | Jones." The Second Deputy Director- i General of the department, Mr J. G. 1 Young, has been appointed Deputy! Director-General as from Ist November. This position was previously held by Mr F. J. Shanks, who recently retired on superannuation. The vacancy 1 created by the promotion of Mr Young has been filled by the advancement of Mr W. R. Ncwall, divisional principal. General Post Office, Wellington to the position of Second Deputy DirectorGeneral.

; Mr Young joined the Post and Telegraph Department at Winton, Southj land, in 1902, and two years later was i transferred on promotion to Invercargil. Between 1910 and 1914 he served in the Wellington, Napier and Timaru offices. Shortly after the oubtreak of the : Great War in 1914 he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, leaving with the Sixth Reinforcements and returning to the Dominion four years later with the rank of captain. He served in several theatres of war. including the Gallipoli Peninsula. Egypt. France and Belgium. On resuming duty with the department in 1919, Mr Young took up a position in Greymouth, and one year later he was appointed inspector. In 1931 he was advanced to the position !of senior inspector, and, after serving three years in this capacity, was appointed deputy-chief inspector, taking up duty in the administrative division of the General Post Office. One of Mr Young’s first duties on coming to Wellington was that of departmental representative on the tour of New Zealand by the Duke of Gloucester in j 1934-35. Mr Young was appointed ' Second Deputy Director-General early in 1937, and since the retirement of Mr Shanks in August he has acted as Deputy Director-General. He is well known throughout the Dominion, and during his career in the department has been identified with all branches of the service. Joining the department in Dunedin lin 1901, Mr Newall became a tele- ; graphist, being stationed in Bal- | clutha, Napier, Wellington, and Hast- | ingr. In 1915 he was appointed chief j clerk to the telegraph engineer. Na--1 pier. In 1919 he was transferred to ■ the General Post Office, Wellington, I where for 11 years he was attached to ! th» staff of the chief post and telegraph engineer .When the commercial I branch of the department was established in 1930 Mr Newall was ap- : pointed commercial manager, occupyI ing this position till 1934, when, folI lowing a reorganisation of certain posi- | tions in the General Post Office, he ! was appointed principal of the tele- : graph division. During the last 20 years Mr Newall has been very closely I identified with the telephone and telegraphic branches of the service.