SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1939, Page 9

SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS

MEETING OF NEW COUNCIL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., February 28. The new council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants met in the Palmerston North Municipal Chambers today. On the motion of the retiring president, Mr M. S. Spence (Napier). Mr W. R. Browne (Dunedin) was unanimously elected president for the incoming year. Mr Spence said that Mr Brown’s was the first case in the society’s history of’a son taking the presidential seat which his father had occupied. The late Mr James Brown was one of the founders of the society. Results of other elections were:— Vice-president, Mr W. H. Nankervis (Wellington); treasurer, Mr F. H. Bass (Wellington); executive, investigation and finance committee, the president, the vice-president, and Messrs E. D. Wilkinson (Auckland), M. S. Spence (Napier). C. H. Wynyard (New Plymouth), F. H. Bass (Wellington), J. Mawson Stewart (Christchurch), R. English (Hamilton) and G. W. Reid (Dunedin); education committee, the president, the vice-president, and Messrs Spence, D. H. Sheen (Auckland), G. W. Reid, C. H. Perkins (Christchurch), A. J. Allport (Timaru) and L. H. Heslop (Wellington): benevolent fund board of control, Messrs Nankervis, W. Green. S. E. Lambert, H. Valentine (Wellington), R. Davis (Palmerston North): publications board of control, Messrs Wynyard, Bass and Allport. It was decided to hold an accountancy convention in Wellington toward the end of February, 1940, if suitable accommodation is available.