Thomas Mark (11 July 1887 - 9 June 1941) was the fourth Public Service Commissioner in New Zealand.
In 1936 the Labour government would have preferred John H. Boyes to Thomas Mark, who was the logical appointment as Public Service Commissioner.
So Boyes and Mark were appointed as co-equal Joint Commissioners, and there was an awkward two years before Boyes was appointed to establish the new Social Security Department.
He ‘courageously defied a minister over the issue of inspecting a sub-department and compelling the resignation of its head’ before dying of heart failure in the minister's office in the middle of the confrontation [1] according to the State Services Commission website.
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