AFTER 40 YEARS’ SERVICE

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 945, 15 December 1933, Page 7

AFTER 40 YEARS’ SERVICE

Railway Officer About to Retire. Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, December 15. The retirement on the completion of forty years’ service of Mr D. Rodie from the position of commercial manager of the Railwaj'- Department was announced to-day by Mr H. H. Sterling, chairman of the Railways Board. Mr Sterling said that Mr Rodie’s services in developing commercial ideas in the Railway Department were well known to those whose business brought them into contact with railway activi- i ties. Mr Sterling also announced the ap- i pointment of Mr A. V. Wellsted, the present chief clerk in the commercial branch, to succeed Mr Rodie. Mr Well- , sted joined the railway service in 1900 as a cadet in the traffic branch in Dunedin, and, like his predecessor, Mr Rodie, has had training in every phase of the working of that branch. Mr Wellsted was appointed to the position of business agent in the commercial branch in 1925, and occupied that position in the Auckland district until 1932, when he was appointed chief clerk to the commercial manager and transferred to Wellington. Mr Sterling said while in Auckland Mr Wellsted was largely responsible for consolidating the business of the department in that area.