A GOOD RECORD.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 6

A GOOD RECORD.

It m with general regret that the public hat* learned thai Mr James Embling, the General Manager of the Bank of New

Zealand, hag definitely eevered his connection with the Bank he hae eenred so well, and is now about to take a wellearned rest. Few men in a public posi-

tion have more thoroughly earned the confidence and respect of the community. The liietcry of hie banking experience in the colonies constitutes a long and honourable record, which he is entitled to look back upon with satisfaction. 1; was very early in the sixties, if we mistake not, that Mr Embling, as a young man, arrived is 3J«I-

bourne from the Old Country. n c.bout the time when the fint r»h*»eetting in for the Otago goMfelds, the?' was a keen demand for clerks and UuJi'in the Melbourne banking institutions, ' Mr Enabling had r>o difficulty at'c** getting an appointment in the Union B*nfc of Australia. He was not long ia ctivinjj advancement, and remained in ii» service of the Bank until 187S f vh tempted by the New Zealand cliajat,, fc vuine to Auckland ;uid joined th« Buifc tf New Zealand in that city as Thei« he remained for three v«ir», tekn* occasional relieving work in other part* of* the colony : f.»r example, he was for a tie, manager at Nelson and at He -nas next appointed l<j the charge <( the business <-.n the West €o*st»» th-iji i.-laml. ana in 1879 lie came to Chrijt. ' church, taking up the inspector's work «{ the late Mr. J. L. Coster. For tea he was inspector for the South Isknd, aaj in .bad. on th<> ivs-gnatum v l the late Jfo Wati, through ill-health, he was manajrer «f the Bank of New Zealand ft Ghiisuhuich. Ua January Ist, 1900 Ju ' was promoted n> the highest official jx«j. tion in the lW'k's Bi-r\'ice, that uf gCDttii manager, and the svK-aion niade by Un directors met wiih a, chorus of approvj throughout the co'wny. It is unn*cewu» for us to say liow thoioughly Mr. Eiabla* has /uliiiled the expectiitioji.* which w«ft formed of liim in that capacity. Wkilr J inrifxible wheie the JJiU-iests o£ t'b« ttufc weif conctined, he y t -t managed to «««uiv the go'Khvill of all with whom lie vu ■tooujMiL in contact. Not a little of Jjj, succt-:.-* is prooably dne to the fact thtt he madf himself personally acquainted, thA only with tvt-ry ottiter of the Bank, b*. ulso, it might be said, with almost *wy client—certainly with all whose eecoum*

weie «f any magnitude. It is a tune that lie -feels compelled to reliaquiik his position before Parliament lias detitW what is to be the future of the Bfuk. He has the satisfaction of knowing tint he leaves th« institution in a state of ut»' paralleled prosperity, and, if the opinion of the commercial world ie to be trwttd with its business in as "clean" a state v the most exacting banker would dew* The heartiest good wishes will follow hie in his trip Homo, and Jxis aumerotu Cm. teibury friend* will add to those wiaa«# the hops that Jia may come back agiu thoroughly set up by his rest, and take «p his abode among us once more.