CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 10

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT

NEW APPOINTMENTS

MR. E. D. GOOD COMPTROLLER

The appointment of Mr. E. D. Good to the position of Comptroller of Customs, to succeed Dr. G. Craig, C.M.G., who retires at the end of the present month, is announced. Mr. H. T. M. Tanner has been appointed to succeed Mr. Good as assistant Comptroller of

Customs,

Mr. Good, who was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, joined the Customs Department at Auckland as a cadet on March 15, 1904. He was subsequently stationed in the local offices of the Department at New Plymouth and Wellington. For several years he was advisory and investigating officer in the h,ead office. He has been Assistant Comptroller since 1930, and acted as Comptroller during the absence of the head of the Department at the'lmperial Conference in 1930 and the Ottawa Conference" in 1932. He also acted as Comptroller for several months while Dr. Craig was chairman of the recent Customs Tariff Commission.

Mr. Tanner was appointed to the Customs Department at Auckland as a cadet on March 21, 1906, and was subsequently stationed in the local offices of the Department at Christchurch and Wellington. He was a member of the Customs Tariff Commission in 1927, and has been an advisory and investigating officer attached to the head office for over 12 years.

His Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral (Lord Galway) has consented to open the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society's Autumn Show next "Wednesday. He will be accompanied by Lady Galwaj; and, £ami]jr.