PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONERS

Evening Star, Issue 22414, 11 August 1936, Page 13

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONERS

JOINT APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED [Per United Press Association-! WELLINGTON, August 10. The appointment of Mr T. Mark, Deputy Public Service Commissioner, and J. H. Boyes, Commissioner of Pensions, to be Joint Public Service Commissioners, was announced this evening by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. The appointments, which will date from next Saturday, and are for a term of three years,, have been approved by the GovernorGeneral, Viscount Galway.

Mr T. Mark comes to his now position with valuable experience gained in association in three important branches—the Post and 'Telegraph Department, the Railway Department ,and the administrative section of the public service itself. He was born 49 years ago in Waitahuna, and educated at the Lawrence District High School. In March, 1906, having passed the public service entrance examination, he was appointed a cadet in the Post and. Telegraph Department at Auckland, being one of the few who at that time gained entry to the department with a cadetship, in July, 1908, he was transferred to the staff division secretary's office of the Post and Telegraph Department at Wellington, where he remained until May, 1913. when he w’as transferred to the Public Service Commissioner’s office. He lias remained in that office ever since, being successively clerk, registrar, chief clerk, and secretary. He was appointed to the last-named position in March, 1930. For the last two years Mr Mark has been acting assistant commissioner, and for the past two months deputy commissioner. During the past six years he has represented the commissioner before the Public Service Board of Appeal. In 1926 he w’as a member of the committee of three which ivas responsible for the regrading of the first division of the Railway Department, and he was also a member of the committee appointed by the previous Government to investigate national health insurance and pensions. Outside his office Mr Mark’s principal interests have lain in friendly society _ activities. He is a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and has hold in that lodge the high position of Wellington district chief ranger. The whole of Mr J. H. Boyes’s career in the public service has been with the Pensions Department, and in the 33 years he lias spent in the service he lias been transferred from one district to another only once, this being from Auckland to Wellington. Born in Auckland in 1836, he was educated at Prince Albert College, and entered the public service in 1903 with a cadetship in the Pensions Department. During the 16 years that followed Mr Boyes rose in the Auckland office of tlio department from cadet to registrar. In July, 1919, lie was moved to Wellington, and appointed . assistant commissioner of pensions, and in the same month 10 years later he became commissioner of pensions, an office he has held up to the present. Among Mr Boyes’s hobbies are fishing and gardening. Much of his spare time is spent at a holiday bach in Akatarawa Valley. In his younger days in Auckland lie played Rugby football, being a member of the College Old, Boys’ Club.