VISITING ACTUARIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 8

VISITING ACTUARIES

Two well-known Australian actuaries, from Victoria and New South Wales respectively, -are at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. Alexander Millar Laughton, Statistician and Actuary to the Victorian Government, is a Fellow of the 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 the Act is brought into operation. It is expected in Melbourne that he will be appointed the Commissioner to administer the Act. For ten days past he has been engaged with the official*, of the Government Life Insurance Department, acquiring infor* mation to assist him in framing rates and generally carrying out the preliminary work of establishing an Accident Department. It will be well remembered that Mr. Laughton conducted the recent investigation into the affairs of the Colonial Mutual, ordered by the Victorian Government. He is staying at the Wellington Club, and expects to proceed to Auckland to-morrow, returning in ten day*. Mr. Elphinstone M'Mahon Moor*, M.A., Professor of Mathematics a*- 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 life offices and other institutions, and also in superannuation matters. He is largely responsible for the superannuation proposals now before the N-ew 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 the East Indies.

Dr. Borghetti, who was until a year or two ago in practice in Wellington, is now settled in Lithgow, New South Wales. After leaving Wellington he went to Port Macquarie. Mr. Ell, M.P., organising honorary secretary of the New Zealand Forest and Bird Society, will arrive in Wellington to-morrow from Christchurch to attend a meeting of the council of that body. The Rev. W. E. Lusk, of Auckland, and formerly curate of St. Paul's ProCathedral, Wellington, returned from a visit to England by the s.s. Athenie today. " I used to give her all me wages every week, I did, an' I always treated her well," said a petitioner in a divorce case at the Supreme Court at Masterton on Tuesday, when asked how he had treated his wife, who had deserted him. "I got a good home together, such as any young lady would like. 'Course we had our Little bits of tiffs, but they weren't nothing. But we didn't seem suited to each other, somehow, and she wandered away a second time, and I am t seen her for about fifteen years. Then she was at Petone, with another man, and I just said, 'Good duy' to