APPOINTMENT OF MR J. S. HUNTER

Southland Times, Issue 24162, 26 June 1940, Page 6

APPOINTMENT OF MR J. S. HUNTER

Director Of National

Service

AT PRESENT CONTROLLER OF MAN POWER

(From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 25. Mr J. S. Hunter has been appointed Director of National Service. The appointment was announced tonight by the Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser). Mr Hunter has been Director of . ManPower up to the present. Mr Hunter was born at Picton 51 years ago and was educated at the Hawera District High School. He joined the Post and Telegraph Department as a message boy in 1903 and became a cadet four years later. In 1914 he joined the Public Service Commissioner’s office and from 1915 to 1924 he was a

ministerial private secretary, serving with Sir Francis Bell, the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, the Hon. A. Myers, the Hon. D H. Guthrie and the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates. He then joined the Railways Department. In 1926 he attended the Imperial Conference and the Assembly of the League of Nations. He was appointed assistant to the General Manager of Railways in 1928, being transferred the following year to become the first Commissioner of Transport. Later he was appointed Commissioner of Employment and when the Social Security Act came into operation he became director of the registration branch.