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THE DEPUTY GOVERNORSHIP MR. W. F. L. WARD APPOINTED WELL KNOWN IN WANGANUI. [ Per Pi-ess Association, i WELLINGTON, May 3. The Minister of Finance (the Kt. Hon, J. G. Coates) announced to-day that Mr. Vv. F. L. Ward has been appointed by the Governor-General m Council to the position of deputygovernor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as from Alay 1. Mr. Ward was born at Marton in 1871 and is the second son of the late Judge Robert Ward, and a grandson of tnc late Reverend Robert Ward, an early mission©ry who arrived in New Zealand in 1841. Mr. Ward was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School aud joined the Bank of Australasia in Wanganui as a boy of sixteen, in 1887. From there he moved to i various parts of New Zealand, ultimately becoming manager at a number of branches, and finally going back to Wanganui as manager in 1916. From there he was transferred to Welling ton as manager in J 920 and was appointed 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 has been forty-five years. For the last twenty months Mr. .Ward has acted as chairman of the Wellington Mortgagors ’ Rcliof Commission.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 104, 4 May 1934, Page 6
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