RESERVE BANK.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20296, 4 May 1934, Page 4

RESERVE BANK.

Mr W. F. L. Ward to be Deputy-Governor. P-ir Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 3. The Minister of Finance (the Right Hon J. G. Coates) announced to-day that Mr W. F. L. Ward has been appointed by the Governor-General-in Council as Deputy-Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as from May 1. Born at Marton in 1871, Mr Ward was the second son of the late Judge Robert Ward and a grandson of the late Rev Robert Ward, an earl}' - missionary who arrived in New Zealand in IS4I. Mr Ward was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School. Mr Ward joined the staff of the Bank of Australasia at Wanganui as a boy of sixteen in 1887. From there he moved to various parts of New Zealand, ultimately becoming managei at a number of branches and finally going back to Wanganui as manager * n T 1916. From there he transferred to Wellington as manager in 1920 and was appointed Inspector of the Bank of Australasia’s New Zealand division in July, 1925, holding this post until his retirement in July, 1932. His total period of service with the bank was forty-five years. For the last twenty months, Mr Ward has acted as chairman of the Wellington Mortgagors’ Relief Commission.