OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 29 November 1928, Page 14

OBITUARY.

MR G. W. MTNTOSH. [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 28. The death occurred suddenly at his Lome in Wellington at about seven o'clock this morning of Mr G. W. Mcintosh, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. He was well known throughout New Zealnnd, particularly in banking and business circles, and was due to retire from active association with the bank at the end of next month. Mr Gorman William Mcintosh was of Irish birth but Scots parentage. He was born in Dublin in 1868, and went out from Liverpool to Melbourne in the ship Try with his parents when a small boy. The voyage took sis months. After living some time at Kyneton, Victoria, where his father died, Mr Mclntosn, then aged ten, came to New Zealand with his mother, settling first at Invercargill. Later the family lived in Dunedin and afterwards moved to the West Coast. Mr Mcintosh's great problem, young as he was, then lay in supporting the household. This left but little time for school, college, or university, or social entertainments. However, the greater the obstacles the more was he determined by night school and in other ways to improve his education, working as a lad in various occupations quite foreign to high finance. At seventeen, in March, 1875, two years after its foundation, he joined the National Bank staff as accountant at the Greymouth branch. His salary was £l5O, then considered a fine salary. Mr Mcintosh's subsequent promotions were:—Sub-accountant, Dunedin, April, 1880; accountant, Christchurch, September. 1882; and Wellington, November 1883; manager at Te Aro, Wellington, October, 1889; and at Blenheim in December of the same year. He was interim manager .at Wellington from April, 1897, to January, 1898, and inspector until December, 1898. He was appointed manager at Invercargill in July, 1905, at Dunedin five vears later, interim manager at Auckland in February, and chief inspector stationed in Wellington from August, 1923, until in that same month in 1925 he was appointed acting-general manager on the death of Mr A. Jolly. He has been general manager of the bank since January Ist, 1926. Mr Mcintosh's bnking career has thus been confined to New Zealand and from first to last he has remained in the service of the National Bank. Mr Mcintosh led a very active life apart from his industry as a business man, bis chief recreations being fishing and shooting, of which he was a very enthusiastic devotee. He had long been connected with the Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand and was president of the Otago Society from 1911 until 1924, a member of the Council ot the New Zealand Association of Acclimatisation Societies, and a member of the Council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society since 1924. He is survived by his wife, who resides in Wellington, and leaves a family of four crown-up daughters (Mrs J. P. Ewen, of Auckland; Mrs Tuppen, wife of Commander Tuppen, of H.M.S. Diomede, now resident m England; and two who are unmarried).