STAFF CHANGES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18954, 3 March 1936, Page 4

STAFF CHANGES

UNION STEAM SHIP CO

NEW GISBORNE MANAGER

MR. BELL GOES TO NAPIER

The retirement of Mr. J. I. Cato, branch manager at Napier, to take effect on March 31, lias resulted in several changes taking place, in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited. Mr. H. y. Bell, branch manager at Gisborne, has been appointed Mr. Cato’s successor, while Mr. K. W. Bull, chief clerk at Napier, will take over the position of branch manager at Gisborne.

Mr. Cato, who retires on March 31, after a service of 52i years jointly with the Union. Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, and the New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited,, was horn in 1866. and joined the latter company at Napier in February, 1884. On January 1, 1922, when the Union Steam Ship Company took over the Napier agency of the New Zealand Shipping Company, of which Mr. Cato was manager, he was given the managership of the Union Steam Ship Company, which position he has since held. Mr. Bell joined the service of the. New Zealand Shipping Company on May 11, 1803, as a junior in their Auckland office, and entered the service of the Union Steam Ship Company at that port in January, 1922. He continued there, filling various positions, until December. 1927, when he was appointed manager of the company’)! office at Gisborne.

Mr. Bull joined the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company in June, 1914, as a junior in their Napier office, and on the Union Steam Ship Company taking over the agency of the former company, was attached to their staff, being appointed chief clerk in July, 1931.