Postmaster-General (New Zealand)
The Postmaster-General in New Zealand was the government minister responsible for the New Zealand Post Office (NZPO) from 1858 to 1989, when the NZPO was split into three State Owned Enterprises, responsible to the Minister of State Owned Enterprises: New Zealand Post Limited, Telecom New Zealand Limited, and Post Office Bank Limited.
Foundation stone on the former Akaroa Post Office, commemorating Heaton Rhodes as Postmaster-General
Image: Henry John Tancred 1882
Image: Crosbie Ward, 1867
Image: Walter Mantell
Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes, usually known as Sir Heaton Rhodes, was a New Zealand politician and lawyer.
Heaton Rhodes in 1915
Night shot of Otahuna in 2007