Newspaper Article 1994 – Cushing made a CMG
Cushing made a CMG
Businessman Selwyn John Cushing is made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, CMG.
Mr Cushing is an executive director of Brierley Investments Ltd and chairman of Electricorp, the Mount Cook Group and Skellerup Industries.
He also features regularly in the National Business Review’s “rich list” of New Zealand’s wealthiest people.
He is also deputy chair man of Air New Zealand and the Union Shipping Group. He has been a government appointee to the Securities Commission since 1983.
Mr Cushing is the son of a former manager of the Whakatu works, Cyril Cushing.
He was educated at Hastings Boys’ High and left school at 16 to join the accounting firm of Corbin Esam.
He studied accounting part-time and qualified at 19. He later became a partner in the firm known as Esam Cushing.
He has two adult sons, Graham and David, and follows cricket and plays the violin in his spare time.
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- David Cushing
- Graham Cushing
- Selwyn John Cushing
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