STATE AIRLINE DIRECTORS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26748, 4 June 1952, Page 8

STATE AIRLINE DIRECTORS

Two To Be Replaced

APPOINTMENTS BY GOVERNMENT

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 3. The board of directors of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation will be reconstituted from July 1. Of the five members of the present board three are to be reappointed, "and two will be replaced. The members to be reappointed are Sir Leonard Isitt (chairman), Mr J. S. Hunter, of Wellington (deputy chairman), and Mr H. Worrall, of Christchurch. The two to be replaced are Mr F. W. Mothes, of Whangarei, and Mr W. W. Hynes, of Pahnerston North. • They will be replaced by Mr John Seabrook, of Auckland, and Mr J. G. Jeffery, of Dunedin. The Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr T. L. Macdonald) said to-day that both new members would bring to the board a wide knowledge of business organisation based on extensive experience. Letters of appreciation and thanks for the service they had given while on the board have been sent by the Minister to the two retiring directors

No indication was given in the Minister’s statement as to when the Government would decide on the future of the National Airways Corporation. This has been uncertain for about two years, since the offer to sell the corporation “lock, stock, and barrel” failed to bring any acceptable tenders. Although several overseas and New Zealand groups tendered, it is understood that they were interested only in certain portions of the services operated by the corporation, mainly in. profitable main trunk services. It is understood that no early Government decision on the future of the corporation can be expected

CAREERS OF NEW DIRECTORS

Mr John Seabrook, who is managing director of Seabrook Fowlds, Ltd., motor dealers, and chairman of directors of Associated Motor Industries, Ltd., Petone, served with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force m the First World War from 1916 to 1919, and commanded No. 1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, New Zealand Territorial Air Force, from 1929 to 1932. In the Second World War he commanded the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Hobsonville in 1942, and then was respectively air attache at the New Zealand Legation in Washington, air member of the New Zealand Joint Staff Mission, and head of the New Zealand Air Mission, rising to the rank of group captain. Mr J. G. Jeffery is managing director of the stationery firm of Williamson, Jeffery, Ltd., and a director of ? e * s a past president of the Otago Manufacturers’ Association, and has been chairman of the Otago and Southland Division of the National Party. During the Second World War he commanded an artillery group in the Southern Command, and also for a time commanded Area 11 in the Southern Military District. The original board of directors was appointed in 1946 by the Labour Government for a term of three years. Mr Hunter.'who retired from the Public Service in 1947. was formerly Director of Social Security and later Director of National Service. Mr Worrall, who is a flourmiller in Christchurch. was chairman and managing director of Air Travel (N.Z9, Ltd., which operated the West Coast services later taken over by the National Airways Corporation. Mr Mothes was formerly managing director of the Goldberg Advertising Agency in Australia and New Zealand. Mr Hynes, who was appointed in accordance with the Labour Government’s policy of having worker representation on the board, was employed in the engineering workshops of Union Airways, Ltd., at Palmerston North. At present he is industrial relations and welfare officer for the corporation. Provision was made in the New Zealand National Airways Act, 1945. for the directors of the corporation to be reappointed from time to time. When their* original term expired in 1949 the then Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr F. Jones) decided to make no change. His successor (Mr. W. S. Goosman) and the present Minister (Mr T. L. Macdonald) earned on the arrangement.