VISITING ACTUARIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2018, 27 March 1914, Page 9

VISITING ACTUARIES.

FROM AUSTRALIA. Among the visitors from Australia at present in Wellington are two leading Australian actuaries. Mr. Alexander Millar Laughton, Statistician and Actuary to tho Victorian Government, is a Fellow of tho British Institute, and also of the Scottish Faculty of Actuaries, and came out from a leading Scottish life office twenty years ago to Victoria. Recently Victoria passed a Workers' Compensation Act, and he has been sent to New Zealand to gather information before tho Act is brought into operation. It is expected in Melbourne that ho will be appointed the Commissioner to administer the Act. •For ten days past he has been engaged with the officials of the Government Life Insuranco acquiring information to assist him in framing rates and generally carrying out tho preliminary work of establishing an Accident Department.

Mr. Laughton conducted the recent investigation into the affairs of the Colonial Mutual, ordered by tho Victorian Government. He is staying . at tho Wellington Club, and expects to proceed to Auckland to-day, tetuniing in ten days.

Mr. Elphinstono M'Mahon Moors, M.A., Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney, is a Fellow of the British Institute of Actuaries, and has for some years held a strong position in Australia as consulting actuary to several lifo offices and other institutions, and also in superannuation manors. He is largely responsible for the superannuation proposals now before the Now South Wales Parliament. Professor Moors is in Wellington for a few days with his wife and daughter during the early days of an extended tour in New Zealand, the South Seas, California, Canada, Japan, and. tho East Indies.