BANK DIRECTOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 10

BANK DIRECTOR

VISIT JO DOMINION ' **! LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who is on a three months' visit to New Zealand, returned from a tour of the North yesterday and is staying at the Grand Hotel. For the past seven years Lord Balfour has been a member of the board of directors of the National . Bank of New Zealand, and it is in connection with the affairs of the bank that he is now visiting this country. He is also chairman of the London board the Australian Mutual Provident Society, and holds other banking positions. Lord Balfour is first visit to New Zealand, and his journey well illustrates the of modern travel. He left London on December 2 and travelled the whole way by air to Sydney, where he joined the Awatea and reached "Wellington on the 21st. It was four weeks yesterday since he left London, and he had then ha<i nine days in the Dominion. Lord Balfour said he had an excellent trip all the way, and he had been very favourably impressed by the Awatea. Lord Balfour has just visited the North Auckland branches of the National Bank, and he also took opportunity to see the kauris of the Waipoua forest. He expects to remain in the country until early in March and to travel through both islands. If opportunity offers he may indulge in a little trout fishing. " Parts of the North Island are very like Scotland," he said yesterday, "and that pleased me very much." He was not inclined to comment on conditions in the country on such brief acquaintance.