THE GOVERNMENT LIFE
NEW COMMISSIONER
MR. W. E. ARNOLD
11l connection with the retirement of Mr. A. E. Allison from the position of commissioner, Government Life Insurance Department, as from the end of the present month, the Public Service Commissioner announced today the appointment of Mr. William Erie Arnold, at present deputy commissioner and secretary, to succeed Mr. Allison, and also the promotion: of Mr. John William Macdonald as'deputy .commissioner and secretary. ■ - Mr. Arnold was .Vorn in Napier in 1882, and was educated at the Napici, public school and at the Napier High School. He joined the Government (Life Insurance Department at -Wellington on January 1, 1901, and' was attached to the head Office until 1920, when ho "was transferred to Nelson as district manager. In 1925 he was appointed senior clerk of the # actuarial branch at head office, and subsequently held the position of office examiner and accountant. In April, 1932, he -was promoted. to the position of secretary and deputy commissioner. Mr. Arnold is a member of the committee of the recently-founded Kew. Zealand Insurance Institute.' DEPUTY COMMISSIONER. Mr, MacdonaMy chief clerk, who has been promoted to the position of secretary and deputy commissioner, was born in Dunedin in 1886 and also .educated in that city. He is a grandson of the late Mr. Archibald Macdonald, schoolmaster, one of the original settlers of Otago, who arrived at Dunedin by the ship Philip Laing in 1848. Mr. Maedonald joined the dcpaitment in 1902 at Wellington, and Has occupied various positions in the Auckland, Napier, and Wellington offices. He was promoted to the position of chief clerk early in 1932. Mr. Macdonald was a rHember of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and had two years' active service in. France. He was wounded at Passchendaele in October, 1917, and on his recovery continued on active service until the Armistice. Subsequently he accompanied the New Zealand Division to Cologne when the Division formed part of the Army ofOccupation. ' ; , * ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 10
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326THE GOVERNMENT LIFE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 10
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