BANK OFFICERS’ GUILD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 154, 2 July 1934, Page 5

BANK OFFICERS’ GUILD

CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON. ( Per Press Association ). WELLINGTON, Juno 29. Delegates from various parts of the Dominion attended the fifteenth annua conference of the New Zealand Ban! Officers’ Guild at Wellington. The annual report showed the mem bership to be 2829, representing ap proximately 83 per cent, of the staff of the banks. Eighty-seven member arc stationed overseas. The report sai that the group assurance scheme ha assumed large proportions during th three years of its existence. Over 1369 members were brought into the scheme and there wore approximately 250(i policies of a value in excess of £BOO,OOO Tho monthly premiums collected amount to over £21.000 per annuam and the accumulated funds of tin Guild total £3040. It was reported that at the last Uni versity examinations 41 members com pletcd their (Diploma of Baukiig course, making the total 164. T:. conference decided to adopt, in ad<l; tion to the University entrance exami nation, a school certificate examin.r’ui as the preliminary test for the D’piom: in Banking course. The following officers wore rdm-i.'d: President. Air V. C. S. Edwards • ' lington); vice-presidents, Messrs 11. V\ L. Lane (Auckland), E. Litt'e \Y< lington), D. Cronin i Tirnaru . It J Wi'.son (Invercargill) : executive cot ■ mittee, Messrs. D. I’. Sullivan. S K NI i mal Bank of Ne v Ze land), J. Stenhouse (Commercial Banl <if Australia) S. E. Addis (Bank o Australasia). I\. T. Thompson (Bank o New South Wales), D. R. Mathesoi (Union Bank of Australia), A. R Frethey, H J. Edwards and R. C. Ed gar (Bank of New Zealand).