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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Accident

Accident.

New Zealand Accident Insurance Company . Otago branch, Bank of Australasia Building, Bond Street, Dunedin, Telephone, 1101. P.O. Box, 406. Head office, Auckland. This well-known New Zealand company does a good business in Dunedin and page 267 Otago generally, not only in accident insurance, but also in employers' liability, fidelity guarantee, and plate glass insurances. Mr. D. T. Brownlee is the manager of the Dunedin branch.

Mr. David John Bews , Inspector of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, Victoria Arcade, Auckland, was born in Glasgow, and was educated at the Western Academy in that city. On leaving school he gained some experience in a lawyer's office, and afterwards entered commercial life. Mr. Bews came to the Colony in 1887 in the s.s. “Arawa,” and was well known in commercial circles in Auckland till 1889, when he joined the staff of the New Zealand Accident Company at the head office. After eighteen months he was appointed district agent in Otago, being subsequently promoted to the position of manager, and afterwards to his present office of chief inspector.

Mr. D. J. Bews.

Mr. D. J. Bews.

Mr. Ernest Trevor Gould , Secretary of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States of America, at Wellington, was born at Otahuhn, New Zealand, in 1869, and was educated at public schools and at the Parnell Church of England Grammar School. In 1884, he joined the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria as a junior, and remained in that company's service till the business was merged in the National Mutual Life office in April, 1897, having occupied the position of district agent at Auckland for the last eight years of his term of office. After a few months with the Australian Mutual Provident Society, Mr. Gould was appointed manager in New Zealand for the Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company of Edinburgh. While in Auckland he was a member of the Gordon Cricket Club, and an enthusiastic cricketer, and was for one year secretary of the Auckland Cricket Association.