F. J. Mackenzie Leaves

New Guinea

TERRITORIANS have learned with regret that Mr. F. J. MacKenzie, who was manager of the Common wealth Bank in Rabaul when the Japs invaded, and who returned to take charge 9f the Bank's branches in the Territories in 1946, has been transferred to the managership of the Broadway (Sydney) branch.

Mr. MacKenzie was not merely a bank manager he took a keen, skilled and helpful interest in Territorial affairs alnd, before the war, he was held in high esteem in Rabaul. Carrying the Bank’s precious records with him. he narrowly escaped capture in Rabaul when the Japs came in. Between 1942 and 1946 he

helped the Australian Government, in many ways, in handling the Territories complex financial problems; and he was appointed Finance Member of the Pro duction Control Board a post he held until the restoration of the Common wealth Bank’s Port Moresby branch.