PROMINENT IN BUSINESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 273, 8 February 1928, Page 12

PROMINENT IN BUSINESS

DAVID POLLOK, A.P.A. (N.Z.), is the managing director and secretary of the Dominion Investment and Banicing Society. He also holds a similar position with the Northern Building Society.

~With Mr. Pollok co-operative investment has been a life study. Descendant of an old Scottish family, he was educated in the Edinburgh of the South. Graduating from the Otago University, he followed up his chosen profession (accountancy) in both Dunedin and Invercargill, most of the time being closely connected with building society activities. Little over five years ago Mr. Pollok retired from business in the South and came to live in Auckland. His keen knowledge of the building society movement soon convinced him that there was an opening in this centre, and both the societies for which he now acts as managing director are the result of his energy and initiative. Mr. Pollolc leaves shortly for England and the Continent, and while abroad will attend two important conferences on the co-operative investment movement.

WORRIED STOREKEEPER’S DEATH Witnesses at the inquest into the death of A. R. Lovell, Pukemiro storekeeper, who died at the Hamilton Hospital, said he frequently complained of head pains, necessitating rest. M. W. Widger, shop assistant, said h« found an empty bottle which *had contained poison, and a mug containing the dregs of the liquid. Witness stated that deceased was very reticent over his private affairs. Senior Constable Thomas Ingram, who represented the police, said that he had received a report from the Auckland police. It was clear from the statement of a leading firm that deceased was not being pushed in any way. In returning a verdict of suicide, the coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said there was no doubt that deceased was much worried over his business and domestic affairs.