SECRETARY TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20787, 5 August 1929, Page 8

SECRETARY TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

MR VON KEISENBERG APPOINTED. ' . (Special to Dailt Tmrs.) WELLINGTON, August 3. Mr Arthur Von Heisenberg has been appointed secretary to the Health Department in succession to .Mr E. A. S. Killick (now town clerk at Timaru). Mr Von Heisenberg,' who was born In 1892, was educated at MastcftoriV /He joined the public service in February, > 1908, in the Hospitals - Department, which was subsequently amalgamated with the Health Department. After serving as a cadet and .clerk in these departments, Mr Von Heisenberg- was appointed a compiler in the Census and Statistics Office, and six months later vepoined the Health Department as inspecting accountant. ,He .resigned' this position' in September, 1928, in order to .take up the post of secretary to the Hospital Boards Association, which position he now relinquishes to take over the above' appointment. Mr Von Heisenberg has been closely associated with hospital administration both as an officer of the Health Department and in his capacity as secretary to the Hospital Boards’ Association. In 1921 he. was secretary to the RoyaJ Commission on Hospitals set up by the Gov- ’ eminent. The new secretary was:-also on active service’-in Samoa arid; France with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. He is a qualified accountant by examination.