THE TREASURY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1935, Page 10

THE TREASURY

PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED MR. B.C: ASHWINH FIRST ASSISTANT / The appointment -.of ■ Mr. >:B.':;C.'-Ash-win, M.Cqmm., iA.R;A.N;Z., 'to I .the position • of ; first 'assistant«secretary,, to the ■ Treasury, * in; succession ;'to ;Mr.;G. C. Rodda, recently, appointed secretary to the Treasury, was announced' today.

The Treasury, solicitor'; (Mr.; G.G. Rose, M.A., LL.B.);has been -appointed second assistant;, secretary. Mr. Rose

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MR. B. CV ASHWIN

will also become superintendent of the State. Advances Department,- in which position .he will be responsible for the control, of. State Advances .matters not taken , over, by the Mortgage Corporation.of New.Zealand. Mr. G..E. Miller, at present State Advances Superintendent,, .will. no.t relinquish that position, for some weeks yet.

Mr. Ash win .was'born at.Paeroa in the Thames, .district. He' obtained his primary, .and .secondary.-education at the. .Cambridge . Dis.trict ( High School and later attended Victoria University College. ,He . qualified .as , a professional accountant.in 1921, and-gradu-ated master of commerce with honours in 1924.' Mr. Ashwin joined the Public Service as ' a cadet: in the Education Department in 1 1912. He enlisted in the Expeditionary'Force in 11916, "served in France, and was wounded shortly before the '.cessation •of hostilities

in-1918. He resumed duty ,with the Education, Department in.1919, and was transferred on promotion to the National Provident Fund, in 1920. In 1922 he Joined' the Treasury staff and was promoted inspector in 1924,: chief inspector in 1926, and assistant accountant in 1930. In 1931 !he became second assistant secretary. ' : ■ • '

Mr. Rose began his official career as a cadet in • the . accounts branch, General Post Office, on August 1, 1899. He was transferred to the Public Trust Office on January I, 1913, as assistant solicitor. In October, 1918, on the resignation of Mr. "E. P. Hay, he was appointed solicitor to the Public Trust Office, and in 3932 he became solicitor to the Treasury.

Mr. Rose is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court, and is a graduate of Victoria College, where he obtained the degrees of M.A; (Hons.) and LL.B. ...-.: