BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 2

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

dOVERBCHEIIT APPOrirTW KW TH. *£ JVTKSSRfi BEAUCHAMP; AND r UPTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association^ WELLINGTON, ifhis day. Government has reappointed Mr H. Beanchamp director of the Bank of New Zealand, also Mr J. H. Upton, of Auckland, in place of Mr J. M. Johnston. Mr Upton is the representative of the northern end of the North Island. Mr John Henry Upton has occupied many public positions in Auckland, and is well qualified to fi.il the important appointment conferred -upon him. He is well known as head of the firm of Upton and Co.. booksellers and. stationers, and as a director of many of the business concerns in the city, including the Auckland Gas Company and the South British Insurance Company, Riverhead Paper Mills Company (now merged in the New Zealand Paper Mills, of which he is a director), Northern Steamship Company, the Hikurangi Coal Company, and the Auckland Roller Mills. He has been a member of the Auckland Sinking Fund Commissioners since 1886, was a member of the Board of Education from ISB4 to 1889; and chairman of that body in the latter year; Mayor of Auckland, 159.1-1592; trustee of . the Melanesian Mission Trust since 1874, of the ■£neral Trust Board of the Church of England since lS?-v and of the Auckland Savings Bank since ISf-4.