Service in Most Districts.

Mr. Mackley has had a remarkably wide range of experience in his thirty-three years with the Department. He has worked in practically every position in the traffic branch, and has had actual service in the majority of the larger districts, from Invercargill to Whangarei. The types of work have included goods, parcels and passenger traffic, shipping work of all types associated with the railways, train-running and transport experience (for he is a certified train-running officer), and executive responsibility as a District Chief Clerk and relieving District Manager.

As Chief Clerk at Head Office, Mr. Mackley had very comprehensive responsibilities. His office was the medium through which correspondence between the General Manager and the branch heads, as well as the public, was conducted. It was the central clearing-house of the service, and gave opportunities for knowledge of the inter-relation of the various branches of the Department not otherwise obtainable.

A keen student and collector of railway literature, Mr. Mackley has also taken a personal interest in several organisations outside the Department upon matters of public weal. For many years he was actively engaged in some of the more strenuous sports—football, rowing, and running, and he is an enthusiastic angler.