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Insurance NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT THE STANDARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND VICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY. LTD ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COMPANY (successors to the Union Insurance Company of New Zealand), Colonial Bank Buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin. Telephone 67; Post Office Box 10; Bankers, Union Bank of Australia, Ltd. Branch manager for Otago • and Southland, Mr. Charles Robert Smith. Head office for New Zealand, Hereford Street, Christchurch. As stated in the Wellington volume of the “Cyclopedia,” this company will be fully referred to in the Canterbury volume.
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Chief office for Otago and Southland, corner of Princes and Rattray Streets, Dunedin. The splendid building occupied by the Department in Dunedin, which was completed in 1897, stands on a commanding sight in the very centre of the city. The structure, which involved an outlay of over £15,000, is the first edifice in which New Zealand granite from Ruapuki Islands forms an important part. The basement of the building is built of New Zealand granite and Waikawa stone, while the first and second floors are of Oamaru stone, the whole thus presenting a most handsome appearance. The staff consists of the manager, Mr. Robert S. McGowan, Mr. Geo. Crichton, chief clerk, and Messrs. Arthur Marryatt and Geo. S. Nicoll, clerks. Mr. ROBERT SMITH McGOWAN. District Manager of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department at Dunedin, is a brother of Mr. John McGowan, Commissioner of Taxes, who is referred to on page 132 of the Wellington Volume of the “Cyclopedia.” The subject of this notice, who is the youngest son of the late Rev. William Stewart McGowan, was born in 1862 in Orkney. Mr. McGowan joined the Government Insurance Department in 1878. at Wellington, and gradually rose till attaining the position of chief clerk in the head office. In 1889 he was transferred to Dunedin as relieving officer, and in the following year received his present appointment. Mr GEORGE CRICHTON, Chief Clerk in the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department, is a native of Cornwall, where he was born on the 20th of July, 1860. He was educated at Hart House School, Tregony, with a view to entering the English civil service, and was junior master of St. Austell grammar school for eighteen mouths before sailing for New Zealand in 1879 in the ship “Chill.” Landing at Lyttelton, Mr. Crichton proceeded at once to the “Empire City”; here he soon afterwards joined the Government Insurance Department as extra clerk, rising to the position of chief clerk under Mr. George Robertson in 1893. He was transferred to Dunedin in 1897 to his present appointment. Mr. Crichton has long taken an interest in photography, and, during his residence in Wellington, was a member of the committee of the Camera club. He was also joint secretary for the exhibition of 1895, at which he was the winner in the competition for tasteful work. In the American Order of Oddfellows, he has been a prominent member of the Southern Cross, Zealandia, and Victoria Rebecca No. 2, lodges. For six years he was grand lodge representative, and now holds office as Deputy Grand Master. On leaving Wellington Mr. Crichton was presented with a large marble clock, bearing a silver plate suitably inscribed, as a mark of appreciation for his long and faithful services in connection with the order. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was senior deacon in the New Zealand Pacific, No. 2 Lodge, N.Z.C. Mr. Crichton was married in 1883 to Miss Toms, niece of Mrs. W. R. Williams, of Wellington, and has two daughters.
THE STANDARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Directors: Messrs. J. Reid (Chairman), David Baxter, A. C. Begg, the Hon. T. Fergus, and Messrs. D. Haynes, M. Joel and James Smith, Junior; General Manager, Mr. Thomas R. Fisher; Head Office, Standard Insurance Buildings, High Street.. Dunedin Capital, £1,000,000, Paid up £75,100. The company is unlimited in liability. This well known insurance company was established in 1874, and at its inception, occupied a suite of offices in Princes Street. The present head office in High Street, which was purchased in 1884, is a very fine three story brick building with basement, and the company occupies the central portion of the ground floor. The public office which is entered by very handsome folding doors is one of the finest and best finished offices in the Colony and is surrounded by private offices for the general manager and his staff, and a very fine board room. The Standard Insurance Company was originally under the management of Mr. Charles Reid, the present general manager, Mr. T. R. Fisher, having had charge of the business since 1880. It may fairly be said to be a very successful local institution, dividends at the rate of seven and a half per cent, having been maintained all along the line, besides occasional bonuses. The company undertakes every description of fire insurance risk, and, as a marine office, wool is insured from sheeps backs or woolshed to London, open policies being issued to cover shipments to and from Great Britain, America, India. China, the Australian Colonies and all New Zealand ports. The company does a considerable business by way of guarantee of the fidelity of persons in positions of trust. The resident managers at the various branches of the company are as follows:—Messrs. Donald Sutherland. (Hawkesbury), S. Aitcheson (Heriot). Henderson and Batger (Invercar-gill), Robert Aitcheson (Kaitangata). W. N. Riddel (Kelso), John Thomson (Lawrence), C. F. Roberts (Livingstone). William Fraser (Lovell’s Flat), H. A. Andrews (Maheno). John C. Macgregor (Mataura). R. Walker (Middlemarch). Donald Reid (Milton). James Lambourne (Mornington), Robert Findlay (Mosgiel). F. R. Smith (Naseby), Thomas Short (North East Valley), Bruce Christie (Oamaru). John Grant (Outram). Fort and Abercrombie (Owaka). G. T. Gwynne (Palmerston), W. J. Taylor (Port Chalmers). Robert Boyne (Queenstown). K. Ross (Riversdale). George O. Cassels (Riverton). G. E. Charlton (Seacliff). Thomas Hurd (South Dunedin). William Pyle(St. Bathans), James McKinlay (Stirling). G. T. Dawson (Tapanui). G. T. Dawson (Waihola). Donald Sutherland (Waikouaiti). D. Clarke (Waipahi). F. W. Knight and Co. (Waipori), F. Auld (Waitahuna). W. Davidson (Waitati). Richard Taylor (Windsor). James Forsyth (Wyndham). George Johnston (Auckland). Archibald Scott (Christchurch). W. Evans (Wellington), Robjohns, Hindmarsh and Co. (Napier). A. A. Scaife (Nelson). T. Jaques Martin and Co. (Melbourne), C. J. Royle (Sydney), Duncan T. Lawes (Adelaide), A. A. MacDiarmid and Co., Ltd. (Brisbane), H. J. Symons (London), J. Caddon and Co. (Glasgow). The Otago Agents and Agencies are as follows:—Messrs. Burton and Patterson, N. Sievwright. and Duncnn and McGregor (Dunedin City). L. Ryan, Jun. (Alexandra South), Thomas Begg (Anderson’s Bay), H. B. Smith (Arrowtown). H. Grigor (Balclutha), Henderson and Batger (Bluff), T. Riddle (Caversham). D. A. McLachlan (Clinton), W. Cullen (Crookston), A. Battersby (Dunback). T. More and Co. (Duntroon). J. Forsyth (Edendale), Henderson and Batger (Gore), A. A. McWilliam (Hampden).
Mr. THOMAS RICHARD FISHER, General Manager of the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand, is the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas R. Fisher, who with his family settled in Christchurch. Canterbury, in 1857. Mr. Fisher was born in the year 1837 at Waltham Abbey in the County of Essex. England, and was educated at the old Kingswood school. On leaving this institution he at once commenced commercial life. In 1854, owing to indifferent health, he left the Old Country for Melbourne; he, however, remained there only a few months, his destination being New Zealand, where his family proposed settling. For many years. Mr. Fisher was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1877, he joined the Standard Company as manager at Christchurch. and three years later was appointed to the important position which he has since so ably filled. Mr. Fisher has been a prominent figure in insurance affairs He was the first president of the council of Fire Underwriters’ Association, and was thrice elected to that position. VICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY. LTD. New Zealand Directors: Messrs. J. T. W right. J.I’., of Wriglit, Stephenson and Co.; T. Brydone, J.P., of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Ltd.; Resident Secretary and Attorney for New Zealand. Mr. J. W. Brindley, J.P. Chief Office for the Colony. 5 Bond Street, Dunedin. Bankers: National Bank of New Zealand. Ltd. Head Office. Melbourne, Victoria, Hon. Edward Miller, chairman. The original Victoria Insurance Company was established in the sister Colony in 1849, the father of the present chairman of directors, the Hon. Henry Miller, being the leading spirit and for many years the old company’s chairman. After thirty years, the “Victoria” was reorganised and reconstructed as a limited company under its present designation, with a nominal capital of £1.000.000 in 100,000 shares of £10 each, of which £50,177 is paid up. The company has since accumulated a reserve fund of £50.000, and a contingency fund of £20.000, besides a large floating balance. It accepts every description of fire, marine, and fidelity guarantee risks through its numerous branches and agencies in Australia and New Zealand. The London representatives of the Victoria Insurance Company. Ltd., are Messrs. Dalgety and Co., of 52 Lombard Street. London, E.G. Mr. JOHN WALTER BRINDLEY. J.P., Resident Secretary and Attorney for the Colony of New Zealand for the Victoria Insurance Company. Ltd.. was born in the world’s metropolis in 1849, and was educated at St. Peter’s national school. Belgrave Street, Belgrave Square. He was brought up to the business of an auctioneer in London, and gained a knowledge of insurance matters in an agency of the Law Fire Insurance Company, of Chancery Lane. Mr. Brindley left England for the Colony in 1873 per ship “Dallam Tower,” which vessel was dismasted in mid-ocean. On arrival, Mr. Brindley took a position as clerk in a mercantile office, entering the service of the Victoria Insurance Company about the end of 1873. Soon afterwards, he was appointed manager of the company’s branch office in Christchurch, and in 1877, was promoted to the position of resident secretary of the New Zealand branch, and attorney for the company within the Colony. Mr. Brindley has taken a prominent part in connection with insurance associations since taking up his residence in Dunedin; he was several times chairman of the Otago Fire and Marine Underwriters’ Associations, chairman of the New Zealand Fire Underwriters’ Association, was one of the executive committee of the council of New Zealand Fire Underwriters’ Associations till early in 1898, when he voluntarily retired. At the time of writing he occupies the position of chairman of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Marine Underwriters’ Association, and is a member of the committee of reference in connection with marine tariffs. He is interested in several local companies, being a director of the Milburn Lime and Cement Company, and of the Roslyn Tram Company. Mr. Brindley was married in 1879 to a daughter of Mr. D. Campbell, formerly manager of the “Otago Daily Times and Witness” Company, and has three sons and three daughters. |
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