New Editor Appointed By Dunedin Evening Star

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 April 1947, Page 6

New Editor Appointed By Dunedin Evening Star

Mr Leslie Jillett, of the editorial staff of the Sydney Morning Herald, has been appointed editor of the Evening Star, Dunedin, where he will commence duties in May. Mr W. F. Alexander retired from the position in November, the acting-editor being Mr F. S. Goyen, chief sub-editor since 1922. Mr Jillett, aged 44, a New Zealand University graduate (8.A., Dip.J.) joined the Taranaki Daily News in 1921. He was appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Herald in 1926, representing it in the Parliamentary Press gallery (of which he was chairman in 1935) from 1928 to 1935. He went to Australia in 1935 to join the Melbourne Argus, and in 1940 was appointed chief sub-editor of the Bribane Courier-Mail. After discharge from the Air Force in 1945, he resigned for family health reasons from the Courier-Mail and joined the Sydney Morning Herald. Mr Jillett will be the third editor of the Evening Star in its 84 years of publication. Mr George Bell, founder, was editor-manager in the newspaper’s infancy, but the first appointee as editor was Mr Mark Cohen, and Mr Alexander succeeded him 27 years later, in 1920.