PENSIONS DEPARTMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 8

PENSIONS DEPARTMENT

NEW HEAD TAKES OVER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE (Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The new commissioner of pensions, .Mr. IT. Digby Smith, whose appointment was consequent, on (he selection by Ihe Government of -Mr. .1. 11. Boyes, pensions commissioner for seme years, for the office of Public Service Commissioner, has now taken up his new duties. Educated at the Otago Boys' High School, -Mr. Smith was appointed to a cadetship in the accountants' branch of the General Post, Office in 1906, and became attached to the old age pensions division. Later, lie transferred to the Pensions Department. In 1914-15 he was Registrar of Pensions at Invercargill, 1921-23 registrar at, Wellington, and in 1923 registrar at, Auckland. Mr. Smith, who was selected as assistant-commissioner at Wellington in 1929. had service in Hie Great War. joining with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1915. He served with a commission in the Otago Regiment in Erance and Belgium ami. afterward, with the Army of Occupation in Germany. Like his 'predecessor lie is an experienced angler.

Bank of Australasia, £5 paid, £7 4s; ditto, £lO paid, £l4 ss; Bank of Australasia. £l2; Howard Smith, 18s 7d : British Tobacco, 41s 6d; Carlton Brewery, 595 : G. .1. Coles, 83s 3d; Drug Douses, 30s; Australian Iron and Steel, pref., 26s 6d; Dunlop Perdriau, 18s Bd. Electrolytic Zinc, 41s 9d: Mt. Morgan, 13s 10d;*Mt, Lyell, 29s 7Jd; Broken Hill Proprietary, 74s 9d ; North Broken Hill £9 ss; Emperor. 16s 4d ; I.oloma, 34a 9d. United Provisions. 13s 9d; Hume Pipe, 20s 10d; General Motors, 25s 6d; Myers, 35s 7J.d. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT! SYDNEY, Aug. 20. Following are (o-day's quotations on the Sydney produce market :—Wheat : Market, steady, but trading! subdued. Wheat, in country, 4s 2.',d. equal to about 4s 2d ex trucks Sydney ; bagged. 4s 11-.'.d-Flour. £l2. Bran, £6. Bollard, £6 ss. Potatoes, Tasman.ian, £8 to £9: others, £7 10s. Onions. Victorian brown. £2O. Maize, yellow, 4s 9d ; white. 4s 6d. Adelaide prices are :—Wheat, growers' lots, 4s 7.1. Flour, bakers' lots. £l2 2s 6d Bran and pollard. £6 ss. Oats. Algerian. 2s 3d. Barley, 2s 4d. MILEURN LIME DIVIDEND (Pur Press Association.) DIINEDIN, this day. The directors of the Milburil Lime and Cement Company, Limited, at :i hoard meeting yesterday, resolved to recommend at the annual meeting of shareholders that a dividend of ."> per cent for Iho half-year be ptiid. This makes si per cent for the year.