WAR CORRESPONDENT
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WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST
Mr. J. H. . Hall, Assistant Director of Publicity, has been appointed war correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces; overseas. The announcement was made today by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones), who said that the question of appointing a second correspondent would receive the further consideration of; the Government. . . Mr. Hall is one of the Dominion's best-known journalists. He was educated "at the Gore High School and Ota^go University, taking his M.A. de^ gree and the Diploma in Journalism. He started in journalism in Invercargill. He was editor of the Christchurch "Sun" from 1927 to 1933, and from 1933 to early in 1937 was editor "of the "Dominion." That year he left to go abroad, and subsequently became attached the Secretariat of the. League of Nations at Geneva for a period of six months. He returned to New Zealand last year to take over the post of publicity manager for' the New Zealand Railways, from which he was transferred to his present position just after the outbreak of war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1940, Page 9
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187WAR CORRESPONDENT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1940, Page 9
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