THE NATIONAL BANK

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1926, Page 4

THE NATIONAL BANK

NEW GEN Kit AI, MANAGER. WELLINGTON. January Id. Since the death of .Mr Alfred Jolly, Air G. W. Mclntosh has been acting as I general manager of the National Hank of New Zealand, and he lias now been definitely appointed general manager. Air Afelnlosh is a Scot born in Dublin. He came to Australia as a small boy with his parents, the voyage in the ship Try occupying six months. After living some time at Kyneton, Victoria, where Ids father died, AH .Mclntosh, then aged ten, came to New Zealand with his mother, settling first at, Invercargill. Later the family lived in Dunedin, and afterwards moved to the West Coast. Air AlcIntosh's great problem, young as he was then, lay in supporting the household. This left but little time for school, college or university, or social entertainments. However, the greater the obstacles the more was he determined by night school and in other ways to improve his education.

Working as a lad in various occupations quite foreign to high finance, at seventeen, in March, 1875 (two years after its foundation), he joined the National Hank staff as accountant at the Greymouth branch. His salary was then £l5O, then considered a fine salary, and it certainly compares more than favourably with, the purchasing value of £.300 to-dnv.

Mr Mclntosh’s subsequent promotions were: Sub-accountant, Dunedin, in April. 18S0; accountant, Christchurch, September. 1882; and Wellington . November. 1883; manager of To Aro, Wellington, October. 1890, and of Blenheim in December of the same year. He was interim manager at AVellirigton from April. 1897. to January. 1898, and inspector, until December, 1898. He was appointed manager at Invercargill in July, 1597, and at Dunedin three years later. He was appointed interim manager at Auckland in February, 1923, and chief inspjpiqr

stationed in Wellington, from August. 1923, until in that same month in 1925 he was appointed acting general manager. His banking career has thus been confined to New Zealand and to the National Bank.