RESERVE BANK.
MR. W. F. L. WARD APPOINTED DEPUTY GOVERNOR. WELLINGTON, May 3. . The Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, announced to-day that Mr. W. F. L. Ward has been appointed by the Governor-General in Council, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as from May 1. Mr. Ward was born at Marton in 1871, the second son of the- late George Robert Ward and grandson of the late Rev. Robert Ward, an early 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 appointed an 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 years. For the last twenty months Mr. Ward has acted as chairman of the Wellington Mortgagors’ Relief Commission. —'(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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