NEW MANAGER IN N.Z.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 109, 4 November 1938, Page 10

NEW MANAGER IN N.Z.

SHAW SAVILL LINE

MR. E. V. BEVAN APPOINTED

(Received November 4, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 3 Mr. Edga|r Vernon B.evan has been appointed New Zealand manager of the Shaw, Sav:ll, and Albion Co., in succession to the late Mr. James i^indlay, and Mr. Donald Robertson assistant manager. Mr. Bevan, who was assistant to Mr Findlay, has been associated with the Shaw, Savill Company for 35 years. He joined' the staff of Levin and Co., Wellington, agents for the Shaw Savill Line, in 1900, as chief passenger and shipping clerk, and after ten years' service with the company he was selected as assistant to Mr. Findlay when the Shaw Savill Company opened their office of control in Wellington. In 1916 Mr. Bevan was appointed assistant manager of the company in New Zealand. Mr. Bevan had a varied and nomadic life until he became associated with the Shaw Savill Company. He was born yz.t Bradford, Yorkshire, the youngest son of the Rev. John Bevan, a well-known Unitarian Minister in England, a stout Liberal, and a devotee of William Ewart Gladstone and all that that statesman stood for. Mr. Bevan himself was educated at Bedford School, and he has a great afi fection for that institution, being vice- : president of the Old Bedfordian Club in New Zealand. The sea called, and soon after leaving school Mr. Bevan set out to see the world. He came to New Zealand in 1894 and for nearly two years served as a cadet on a sheep station in the Wairarapa. Then he heard Australia calling for bright and adventurous young men, so he crossed the Tasman in search of further experience of life in Greater Britain. Then the Matabele gave trouble and Mr. Bevan enlisted in the Rhodesia Mounted Police at Mafeking, early in 1897, and served through the last stages of the Matabele Rebellion. Next, he turned his eyes' towards England, and soon after his return to his native land he joined the staff of Rabone Bros., Birmingham, engaged in the shipping business of that firm with its many important export connections with South America and other distant countries. In October, 1900, he returned to New Zealand, joining the service of Levin and Co., and his Ccfreer in New Zealand-United Kingdom shipping business was as outlined above For eight years Mr. Bevan was an officer in the New Zealand Garrison Artillery, retiring in 1920 with the rank of Major.