N.Z. RESERVE BANK
i Deputy Governor Appointed POST FOR MR. W. F. L. WARD By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, May 3. The Minister of Finance, the lit. Hon. J. G. Coates, announced to-day that Mr W. F. L. Ward had been appointed by the Governor-General-iii Council deputy-governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as from the Ist instant. Mr Ward was born in Marton in 1871 and was the second son of the late Judge Robert Ward and grandson of the late Rev. Robert Ward, an earlv missionary who arrived in New Zealand in 1841. Mr Ward was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and joined the Bank of Australasia there as a boy of sixteen in 1887. From there he moved to various parts of New Zealand, ultimately becoming manager of a number of branches, and finally going back to Wanganui as manager in 1916. From there he was transferred to Wellington as manager in 1920 and was 1 appointed inspector of the Bank of Australasia, New Zealand division, in July, 1925, holding this post until his retirement in July, 1932, his total period of service with the bank being 45 years. For the last 20 months Mr Ward has acted as chairman of the Welling- | ton Mortgagors’ Relief Commission.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 119, 4 May 1934, Page 7
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