WAR CORRESPONDENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23928, 31 March 1941, Page 6

WAR CORRESPONDENT

MR. J. H. HALL RESIGNS POST WITH THE ARMY (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Sunday Confirmation of a report that Mr. J. 11. Hall had resigned from the position of official war correspondent and historian with the Expeditionary Force was given in an interview hv the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones. Mr. Hall, who was assistant-Director of Publicity in the Dominion before receiving the appointment as war correspondent, left with the Second Echelon, which was diverted to England. He has now joined the Army with the rank of captain, and has been appointed public relations officer. The official war correspondent and historian is now Mr. R. T. Miller, the Minister said. A former Auckland journalist, Mr. Miller left New Zealand as a private with the First Echelon, and after doing publicity work with the force in Egypt he was officially appointed war correspondent in the Middle East. The Government does not propose appointing a second correspondent. "The Government has not decided to appoint an / official artist with the Expeditionary Force," Mr. Jones said in reply to a suggestion that the appointment of Mr. A. A. Deans, a New Zealand artist with the First Echelon, who had sent back a fine collection of Egyptian paintings, was being considered.