Mr L. G. Anderson, Head Of Child Welfare Division

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30325, 28 December 1963, Page 12

Mr L. G. Anderson, Head Of Child Welfare Division

Mr L. G. Anderson, who! will succeed Mr C. E. Peek; as Superintendent of Child I Welfare in New Zealand at the end of January, was born in Lyttelton. At Hamilton High School, Mr Anderson gained a Senior National Scholarship and he graduated from the University of Canterbury with an LL.B, degree. For some years he was teaching. He gave radio sports commentaries in Christchurch. Mr Anderson joined the Child Welfare Division in 1940 as a field officer in Hamilton. After serving in field positions in Palmerston North and Whangarei, Mr Anderson was appointed to a head office position in 1945. He has been Deputy-Superin-tendent of Child Welfare since 1949. Mr Anderson has had a wide experience in social work administratiotn. He has been a member of the Social Science Advisory Committee, the Social Welfare Advisory Board, the Joint Committee on Young Offenders, and the Advisory Committee on Marriage Guidance since the inception of those bodies. He has been a member of interdepartmental committees considering adoption practices, the housing problem of families, co-ordination of social services and pilot recreation schemes.

In 1961, Mr Anderson held the office of national president of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration. Some years earlier he was a national vice-president and, on occasions, acting president of the Public Service Association. In 1959, Mr Anderson went to New York as the New Zealand member of the United Nations Social Commission. Later the same year, he was sent by the United Nations to a conference in India on the organisation and administration of social services in Asia and the Far East, His status was that of a United Nations specialist in the recruitment and training of social workers.

He has participated in two other United Nations conferences held in Wellington. The first was on human rights as affected by the administration of criminal justice, and the other on housing schemes and tenant administration. Apart from work with Government services, Mr Anderson has had wide experience in voluntary organ-

isations. He is a member of the management committee of the Wellington Presbyterian Social Service Association, of the Hutt Valley Marriage Guidance Council, a former vice-president of the Wellington branch of the United Nations Association of New Zealand, and a former member of the executive of the New Zealand Administrative Staff College. In the Hutt Valley he ha* been president of a home and school association, chairman of a school committee, president of a parents' association (post - primary), Governor-General's representative on a board of governors of a post-primary school, and a member of the Hutt Valley School Committees Association. He has written and lectured widely on various aspects of social work. •

Mr Anderson is married and has five children.