Mr. G. T. Wilson's Career.

Joining the Department as a cadet at Dunedin in 1899, he worked in various capacities in that district and was appointed Assistant Relieving Officer in 1908. Later he was Stationmaster at Allanton for four years, being then promoted to the District Traffic Manager's Office. In 1917 Mr. Wilson was transferred to Head Office, Wellington, and from 1924 to 1928 was associated with the Commercial Branch as Chief Clerk and Senior Business Agent. During his term in the Commercial Branch he represented the Department at a number of conferences of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, the Farmers' Union, and other organisations. Mr. Wilson, while in the Commercial Branch, also introduced the system of interisland through-booking of goods and parcels which has proved of such benefit to the community. He also introduced the present system of reservation of seats in trains. Then followed three years of special duties (including the revision and consolidation of the Railway Department's rules, regulations, and instructions) in Head Office, and a year as Indoor Assistant to the District Traffic Manager, Wellington.

In 1932 Mr. Wilson was appointed District Traffic Manager at Auckland, and in 1935 he was promoted to Transportation Superintendent, with headquarters at Wellington.

Since his appointment to this position Mr. Wilson has been associated with the other heads of branches in planning many important improvements, notably major rearrangements of traffic facilities at Huntly, New Plymouth, Marton, Taumarunui, Rotorua, Napier, Te Kuiti, Westfield-Otahuhu and numerous other stations. His experience has been of assistance in the designs of the new stations and yards at Frankton Junction, Palmerston North, Stratford, Te Awamutu and Christchurch and he has been actively concerned in the fixing of station sites and the designs of the stations and yards on the various deviations and duplications, also on new lines, chiefly the Dargaville extension, the Paeroa-Pokeno line, the NapierGisborne extension, South Island Main Trunk, and the Westport-Inangahua line.

Amongst extra-Departmental activities upon which he has been engaged from time to time, Mr. Wilson is at present Chairman of the National Transport Committee for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition.