The Naseby Post Office is a large handsome two-storied brick building, in Derwent Street, facing the public reserve. It has a convenient public office, telegraph, money order, and savings bank departments; and is also the local office for the Government life insurance. A portion of the building is used as a residence by the postmaster in charge. Prior to the erection of the present office, in 1900, a small wooden building did duty for many years.

Mr. Richmond Keele , formerly Postmaster and Telegraphist in charge at Naseby, is the son of Mr. T. B. Keele, who was in the Provincial Secretary's office. Mr. Keele was born in 1860, in Christchurch, where he was educated. He entered the Post Office as a cadet on the 16th of October, 1875, and was soon afterwards transferred to Wellington. After four months' service he was appointed to Port Chalmers, where he continued for nine years as assistant telegraphist. For six years subsequently Mr. Keele was postmaster at Clyde, and was transferred to Naseby on Christmas day, 1889. He was married, in 1883, to a daughter of Captain William Goldie, of Port Chalmers, and has two sons and one daughter. Mr. Keele is now (1904) postmaster at Queenstown.

Mr. R. Keele.

The Naseby Police District is under the charge of a constable assisted by a mounted constable. It extends from Serpentine to the face of Pig Root, and from Kokonga to the Rough Ridge, a distance of about fifty miles.

The Naseby Police Gaol is situated on an acre of land, at the corner of Derwent and Outer Streets. The gaol is a concrete building, with three cells, wash-house, kitchen and office. There is a four-roomed house, also built in concrete, for the officer in charge, and there are also two cottages, stables and other buildings on the premises.

Constable Robert William Lemm , the Officer in charge of the Naseby Police District and Gaol, was born in Durham, England, in 1858. He was educated in his native county and brought up as a labourer, came out to Port Chalmers in 1878, by the ship “Invercargill”, and joined the police force in February, 1879. He was stationed successively at Wellington, Dunedin, Invercargill, Bluff and Oamaru, and was appointed to his present position at Naseby in 1897. Mr. Lemm was married in 1894 to a daughter of Mr. T. Lowe, of Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, and has two sons.

Constable R. W. Lemm.