Management change

Press, 12 November 1981, Page 21

Management change

Mr Guy Garland has been appointed as the AMP Society’s South Island manager, based in Christchurch. He will take up his appointment on November 23, following the retirement of the present Christchurch manager, Mr K. G. Elliott, after 43 years service.

Mr Garland is at present assistant investments manager with the AMP in Wellington, responsible for the commercial, rural, and housing lending of the Society. His career has a rural background. After gaining practical farming experience, Mr Garland attended Lincoln College and qualified with the Diploma of Valuation and Farm Management in 1953. He then spent several years with the Rural Bank and in 1958 joined the AMP as a Rural Investment Officer in Palmerston North. In 1967 Mr Garland was transferred to Wellington where he became a rural investment manager in 1972, and in 1978 was appointed to his present position. Mr Elliott was appointed to Christchuch in 1968 after a 5-year term in Canberra, and it was largely his initiative that led to the redevelopment of the A.M.P./Noah’s block with the local expenditure of some SIIM.

Mr Elliott represented New Zealand at rugby in 1946, and played for Wellington against Canterbury in 1944-46. He is a Lay Canon of the Christchurch Cathedral Chapter, and prominent in church and service activities.