CAPTAIN HALL
POSTED MISSING
WAR CORRESPONDENT
Captain John H. Hall, who is among those posted missing in the Second N.Z.E.F. casualty list published today, is one of the Dominion's best-known journalists. He left New Zealand with the Second Echelon as official war correspondent, going to the United Kingdom, and subsequently on his arrival with the troops in Egypt was appointed public relations officer, but he continued to act when opportunity offered as a war correspondent.
Captain Hall 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 while overseas he became attached to the Secretariat of the League of Nations at Geneva for six months. In 1939 he returned to New Zealand to take over the office of publicity manager for the New Zealand Railways, from which position he was transferred, just after the outbreak of war, to the office of Assistant Director of Publicity.
. The last dispatch received from Captain Hall in Greece was from Athens, dated-April 21.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 5
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