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MR. H. D. EDWARDS (Pe* Press Association.) _ ■WELLINGTON, last night. Private advice has been received in Wellington that Mr. H. D. Edwards, who retired last April from the position of controller of Savings banks and accounts, died suddenly in Paris on Boxing Day. ' Mr. Edwards joined the Post and Telegraph Department as a cadet in the learners’ gallery, Wellington, in 1800, and was sent to Westport for special service at the tinie ol the great strike in that" year. Subsequently- lie served at. Lawrence and Grey mouth, and wgS transferred to the Chief Post Office, Wellington, in 1907,. He was ! appointed controller in 1925. In 1920 Mr. Edwards was appointed to go ,to Samoa to open the Post Office Savings Bank and bring the postal arrangements into line with the. New Zealand regulations. He always took great interest in the educational side of his profession, and was one of tlu: first officers .of the department to qualify as a member of: -the Incorporated Institute of Accountants.
The funeral took place at Versailles on December 27.
Mrs. Edwards, who was accompanying her husband, will return to .New Zealand as soon as possible.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 10
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