Mr B.D. Greig New Auditor-General

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30827, 12 August 1965, Page 12

Mr B.D. Greig New Auditor-General

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, August 11.

Mr B. D. A. Greig has been appointed Controller and Auditor-General. He succeeds Mr A. D. Burns, who has retired. His appointment by the Administrator (Sir Harold Barrowclough) will take effect tomorrow.

Mr Greig, who was educated at Nelson College, is a member of the Accountants’ Society and has been secretary of the Institute of Public Administration. Since 1964 he has been an assistant-Sec-retary to the Treasury. He joined the Public Service in 1927, and after positions in the Pensions Department, Nelson, and the Income Tax Department, Wellington,

he was appointed to the Treasury in 1938. Mr Greig became an assistant investigating officer in 1942 and served for some years on the secretariat of the Economic Stabilisation Commission, eventually becoming its assistant-secretary.

In 1950, he was appointed an investigating officer in the Internal Marketing Department, and acted as a Government representative on the Apple and Pear Board.

He returned in 1951 to the Treasury as secretary of the Marketing and Advisory Council, and subsequently became assistant chief investigating officer. He was appointed finance officer in 1963.

Mr Greig attended the seventh session of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East working party on economic affairs in Bangkok in 1962.