Ernest Northcroft

THE TAURANGA POST OFFICE has the usual telegraph and money order branches, and receives and despatches mails from and to Auckland, Thames, Rotorua, Napier, etc. Mr. Ernest Northcroft is the postmaster.

MR. ERNEST NORTHCROFT, the Postmaster at Tauranga, agent for the Public Trustee, and officer in charge of the Lands for Settlement office, was born in 1854, at New Plymouth, where he was partly educated. He finished his education at Wellington College, and joined the telegraph service at Patea, where he remained eighteen months. He was also for two years postmaster at Hurunui, North Canterbury. After serving several years in the telegraph offices at Blenheim and Wellington as operator and finally as supervising officer, Mr. Northcroft was appointed assistant officer in charge at the telegraph office at Blenheim in 1888. He subsequently held a similar position in the Christchurch office for four years, and was transferred to Tauranga in 1895. Mr. Northcroft takes a great interest in athletics, but his favourite pastime is floriculture. He is a member of the Tauranga Club, and is generally very popular. Source: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District] 1902 via https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc02Cycl-t1-body1-d3...