MANAGER APPOINTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 7

MANAGER APPOINTED

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION

The appointment of Mr. T.-M. Hinkley as manager of the United Press Association is announced. Mr. A. R. Cameron, who has been acting manager since the retirement through ill health of Mr. A. B. Lane, has been appointed branch manager at Sydney. Mr. Hinkley, who was educated at the Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin, started his journalistic'career; on (the staff of the "Otago Daily Times," Dun-

edin. In 1924 he joined the staff of the Press Association at Wellington, and was its representative in the Parliamentary Press Gallery from 1929 till 1934, when he was appointed to the managership of the association's Sydney branch, a position he has held since that date. Mr.; Hinkley recently, married Miss Margot Russell, formerly of Wellington and Auckland. During the ten years he was in Wellington he took an active interest in rowing, being an enthusiastic member of the Star Boating Club, of which he was club captain. Mr. Cameron, who. was' born at Dunedin and educated at the Otago Boys' High .School, joined the Press Association in 1920. In 1924 he was transferred to the Sydney branch,

where he remained till 1928. Mr. Cameron then joined the reporting staff of the "Evening Star," Dunedin, and in 1933 transferred to the "Press," Christchurch. He rejoined the Press Association in 1934, and since that date has been its representative in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, of which he is at present ■ vice-chairman.