Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Gundry, William Hickley

Gundry, William Hickley, F.I.A.N.Z., Auditor, 179 Hereford Street, Christchurch. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, St. Albans. Mr. Gundry was born in Lyttelton, St. 1852, and was educated there by the Rev. J. Ferguson. He gained his first commercial experience in the office of his brother-in-law, the late Mr. E. C. Latter, of Akaroa, and
Standish and Preece, photo.Mr. W. H. Gundry.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. W. H. Gundry.

was afterwards articled to Mr. C. E. Fooks, surveyor. For some time, subsequently, Mr. Gundry was in the office of Messrs Twentyman and Cousin, merchants, of Christchurch, page 280 and in 1872 became accountant to the late Mr. Robert Wilkin. New Zealand Wool Stores. Six years later he purchased the business of Messrs Bullock and Co., auctioneers and merchants at Ashburton, where he was in business till 1886. During the time Mr. Gundry resided in Ashburton, he was auditor to the borough and to several important public companies. In 1886 he acquired the St. Helen's coal pits at the Malvern Hills, and worked them for two years, but removed to Christchurch, where he established himself as an auditor and accountant in 1888. Three years afterwards Mr. Gundry went to the Zeehan silver fields, in Tasmania, in partnership with Mr. T. H. V. Dicken, but returned to New Zealand in the following year. Mr. Gundry has been recognised as a special accountant since 1872. He was prominent in connection with the establishment of the Institute of Accountants of New Zealand, and was audit examiner for the colony in connection with that body, prior to the amalgamation of the leading Australasian Institutes. He was elected president of the Institute in 1899, was re-elected in 1900, and again in 1901. He was one of the two New Zealand representatives at the conference of Australasian Accountants held in Sydney in January, 1901. Mr. Gundry is auditor for many of the large leading public companies. In the early seventies Mr. Gundry was a well-known oarsman and athlete, and stroked the first winning crew for the Canterbury Rowing Club President's Cup in 1874; and he holds numerous trophies. At the time of the Russian scare in 1885 he held a commission as lieutenant of the Ashburton Guards under Captain C. W. Purnel, a veteran of the American civil war. He became a Freemason when twenty-four years of age, and was initiated in Lodge St. Augustine No. 609, of which his uncle, Dr J. S. Gundry, was the founder in 1851. In the district grand lodge of Canterbury E.C., Mr. Gundry holds office as deputy district grand master, and from 1893 to 1897, was district grand secretary. On four occasions he has been principal of the Royal Arch under the English, Scotch, and New South Wales Constitutions, and holds the rank of Most Wise Sovereign of the Rose Croix. Mr. Gundry was married, in 1872, to a daughter of Mr. Joseph Deighton, late of the firm of Deighton and Bell, publishers, Cambridge, and has three sons and four daughters.