WEST CUMBERLAND TIMES, DEC. 12, 1928. POPULAR WHITEHAVEN POSTMAN’S RETIREMENT.

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WEST CUMBERLAND TIMES, DEC. 12, 1928.

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37 YEARS SERVICE.

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POPULAR WHITEHAVEN
POSTMAN’S RETIREMENT.

 

After upwards of 37 years’ service Mr. J. Y. SMALLWOOD, acting head postman at Whitehaven Post Office, has just retired on pension on reaching the age limit. He started his postal career at the Whitehaven Office in 1891 as an auxiliary postman and was appointed to the staff two years later as a rural postman to Moresby Parks. Subsequently he was transferred to the Hensingham delivery which then extended to Linethwaite and Scalegill. In January 1896, he was appointed a town postman and served in that capacity until 1921, when he was promoted to the position of acting head postman.

 

He was actively associated with various organizations and carried out much useful work in the interests of his colleagues. In this connection he was for a long period secretary of the Staff Benevolent Fund and was also vice chairman of the Post Office Whitley Committee, and he performed his duties with that thoroughness and efficiency which characterized all his work during his long postal career. Genial, courteous and obliging, he was popular alike with the public and the members of the Post Office staff and when, owing to a break down in health, he was compelled to relinquish his duties and activities, regret was expressed on all sides.

 

The esteem in which Mr. SMALLWOOD is held by his colleagues was manifested last Thursday when the staff presented him with a pair of beautiful water-colour paintings mounted in English Gold. The presentation took place at Mr. SMALLWOOD’s home, the Gardens, Coach Road, where the paintings were handed over to him by Mr. G. H. THOMPSON, the Head Postmaster, who voiced the regret of the members of the staff of the Whitehaven Post Office, that he was unable owing to the state of his health, to continue at the office to the end of his service. They trusted, however, said Mr. THOMPSON, that now he was free from official worries and cares, his health would improve and he might be spared for many years to enjoy his well earned pension.

 

Mr. McCUTCHEON, overseer, associated himself with the Postmaster’s remarks and said they would always remember Mr. SMALLWOOD as one who was respected by the staff and with whom it had always been a real pleasure to work. They hoped that every blessing would rest upon him and his wife and that they would have many happy years together.

 

Mr. SMALLWOOD replying, said the kindness of the staff had almost overwhelmed him and he would ask them to accept in a few words the outpourings of his heart in deep thankfulness for their beautiful gift and kindly sentiments. It was perhaps necessary for him, he added,  to say how very deeply he felt the official and personal severance from those with whom he had been associated for so many years, and he could assure them his thoughts would often wonder back to his old colleagues at the Whitehaven Post Office.

 

Mr. I. VICKERS, who entered the service as a telegraph messenger in 1897 and was appointed postman in June, 1900, has been appointed acting head postman in succession to Mr. SMALLWOOD.

 

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