TELEGRAPH ENGINEER RETIRES
MR J. WEBSTER’S FORTY YEARS’ SERVICE Mr J. Webster, Telegraph Engineer, Nelson, retires on superannuation today (30th June), after 40 years’ service with the P. and T. Department. Mr Webster began as a message boy at Oamaru, where he was also a postman for a short period after which he graduated through the Telegraph Learners’ School at Invercargill to a cadetship at Ashburton. Transfers followed to the Christchurch. Napier and Wellington Telegraph Offices. In Wellington Mr Webster took up study for Departmental examinations, and was successful in qualifying for entrance to the engineering branch of the Department as a Technical Clerk in 1912, since when he has had wide experience of the engineering work of the Department at Auckland, Wellington. Whangarei. Hamilton, Masterton. Wanganui and Nelson, being in charge o- the districts In the five last-mention-ed places. Mr J. C. Grcig has taken up duty in charge of the Nelson district.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 June 1939, Page 4
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