Pam marks 40 years at paper
She started work in 1982 at the commercial printing office of KBH
PThere’s hardly a job in the office that I haven’t done, including the wages.
Pam Kearns
am Kearns celebrated 40 years at the Horowhenua Chronicle this week. Pam started work in the commercial printing office of KBH in 1982.
She dealt with timesheets, job sheets and hand wrote invoices for all the jobs that were printed in the busy department.
The list of products produced by KBH print over the years is endless. As well as the usual invoice books, order books, statements, receipt books business cards, there were also horse racing programmes, shirt boards, boxes for Talus Brushware, calendars, electoral rolls and a huge array of books and magazines, including CWI, WDFF, Kennel Club, Marist Messenger and the Nursing Journal.
And it was Pam’s job to hand write the hundreds of invoices these jobs generated each month.
“There was also a lot of customer contact too — we did a lot of wedding invitations and bereavement cards in those days,” she said.
When the newspaper and commercial printing operations were closed and shifted to Whanganui, Pam joined the general office staff and has worked in many different roles as the production of the newspaper was modernised.
“There’s hardly a job in the office that I haven’t done, including the wages.”
The past few years she has processed the classified ads and ‘manned’ the front desk in the office.
There’s not a lot Pam doesn’t know about the business so a huge thanks from everyone at the Horowhenua Chronicle for sticking with us all these years and helping to keep the wheels spinning and keeping our spirits up.