POPULAR OFFICER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 10

POPULAR OFFICER.

GIFT TO MR C. F. A. WATERS. Members of the staff of the G’liief Post Office, Palmerston North, gathered yesterday to make a presentation to Mr C. F. A. Waters, who lias been transferred to the commercial department of the General Post Office, Wellington, the guest being presented with a fountain pen and propelling pencil as a mark of the esteem in which he is held. • In making the presentation on behalf of the staff, the Chief Postmaster, Ml G. Clark, spoke in eulogistic terms of the active interest Mr. Waters had taken in the Post and Telegraph Association in this centre, being the chairman of the Social Club; of his activities with the Manawatu and Oroua School Committees’ Association and other school committee work, and other institutions in which Mr Waters has interested himself during his residence in Palmerston North. The speaker con gratulated the departing officer on Ins transfer to the commercial branch of the General Post Office and said Ins experience in Palmerston North would fit him for his new post. Mr H. Patterson, supervisor of the telegraph branch, supported Mr Clark, speaking of Mr Waters’s services pertaining to the telegraph branch. In his reply, Mr Waters referred to the happy time he had spent in Palmerston North and thanked all of the various branches of the service with which he had been associated in Palmerston North, both as telegraph officer and as commercial agent, for the assistance afforded him m his work. He regretted his departure from Palmerston North and hoped that it would not be long before he visited this centre in his official canacity.