Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]

Insurance

Insurance.

The New Zealand Government State Fire Insurance Department, Coles' Buildings, the Square, Palmerston North. This branch was opened in January, 1908. The district worked from this office embraces the whole of North Wellington from Paikakariki and the North Wairarapa boundary to the southera borders of Taranaki and Auckland, and also the southern part of Hawke's Bay.

Mr. Harold Cummins Rogers, manager of the Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand State Fire Insurance Department, was born in Wellington in the year 1880, and, after completing his education, entered the office of the United Insurance Company, Ltd. After about five years there he resigned, in 1901, to serve in the South African Boer war. On returning to New Zealand he joined the National Insurance Company, and three years later entered the service of the State Fire Insurance Department.