The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 4 (September 1, 1931.)

Tried to do his Best

Tried to do his Best.

Mr. Widdop said that he had always endeavoured to do his best, and felt that he had earned his rest. He would always look back to his connection with the railway service with great pleasure. He had joined the service in 1891 in the Locomotive Branch, at that time a very well organised office with rather a martinet as Chief Clerk. Everyone had to learn shorthand and had to write well, and if a man was a bad writer he had to produce a copybook to the Chief Clerk every morning. That training he owed much to. Later he transferred into the Civil Engineering Branch, then under the charge of Mr. J. H. Low. In the drawing office there were only Messrs. Troup, Bezant, Jones and himself. Since then he had served at various periods throughout New Zealand.