APEX OF ACHIEVEMENT

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

APEX OF ACHIEVEMENT

GOVERNMENT service is very much akin to a ladder, narrow and attenuated, with the ambitious and more enterprising officers at the apex, struggling mediocrities jostling each other along the lower rungs. _ The number of public servants whose ability would command attention in spheres other than their own is comparatively few, but, of course, there are paramount examples, such as A. E, Allison, Commissioner of the Government Life Insurance Department. Moreover, Allison is gifted with personal attractiveness which is not confined to his association with the department; the circumstance that his temperament has drawn many people within the sphere of his friendship, is proof of it. , ; About eighteen months ago his appointment as commissioner to the department, in Which he has served for nearly 40 years, was hailed with enthusiasm by both friends and fellow-officer6. What more need be said?

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