OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 28 November 1928, Page 12

OBITUARY

MR. G. W. M'INTOSH The death occurred suddenly at his homo in Wellington at about seven o'clock this morning of Mr. G. W. M'lntosh, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. Ho was well known throughout New Zealand, particularly in banking and business circles, and was duo to retire from active association with the bank at the end of next month. Mr. Gorman William M'lntosh was of Irish birth but Scots parentage. He was born iv Dublin iv 1858, and went out fVjOiu Liverpool to Melbourne -in the ship Try with his parents when a small boy. The voyage took six months. After living some time at Kyncton, Victoria, where his, father died, Mr. M'lntosh, then aged ten, came to New Zealand with his mother, settling first at Invercargill. Later the family lived in Dunedin, and afterwards moved to the West Coast. Mr. M'lntosh's great problem, young as he was, then lay in supporting the household. This left but little timo for school, college,' or university, or social entertainments. However, the greater the obstacles the more was he determined, by night school and in other ways, to improve his education,

working as a lad in various occupations quite foreign to high finance. At seventeen, in March, 1875, two years after its foundation, he joined the National Bank staff as accountant at the Greymouth branch. His salary was then £150, then considered a fine salary. Mr. M'lntosh's subsequent promotions were: —Sub-accountant, Dunedin, April, 1880; accountant, Christchurch, September, 1882, and Wellington, November, 1883; manager of To Aro, Wellington, October, 1889; and of Blenheim, in December of the same year. He was interim manager at Wellington from April, 1897, to, January, 1898, and inspector until December, 1898. He was appointed' manager at Invercargill, in July, 1907; Dunedin, three years later; interim manager, Auckland, February, 1923; and chief inspector, stationed inWellington, from August, 1923, until in that same month, in 1925, he was appointed acting-general manager on tho death of Mr. A. Jolly. He has been general manager of the bank sinco Ist January, 1926. Mr. M'lntosh's banking career has thus been confined to New Zealand, and from first to last he has remained in the service of the National Bank. Mr. M'lntosh led a very active life, apart from his industry as a business man, his chief recreations being fishing and shooting, of which, he was-a very enthusiastic devotee. He has long been connected with the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand, and was president of the Otago Society from 1911 'until 1924, _ member of the council of the New Zealand Association of Acclimatisation Societies, and a member of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society since 1924. ■ He is survived by his, wife, who resides in Wellington, and leaves a family of four grown-up daughters—Mrs. J. F. Ewen, of Auckland; Mrs. Tuppen, wife of Commander Tuppen, of H.M.S. Diomede, now resident in England, and two 'who are unmarried. ,