SAFE IN ENGLAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 4

SAFE IN ENGLAND

Captain J. H. Hall Captain J. H. Hall, first official war correspondent with the Second N.Z.E.F., who was taken prisoner in Greece, is reported to have arrived in England in bad health, and will not return to the Dominion for some months. The camp in which he was a prisoner of war was overrun by Americans, and on his release he made a long march back to safety. Captain Hall is one of the bestknown journalists in New Zealand. He has been editor of the “Hawera Star,” the Christchurch “Sun” and the “Dominion,” Wellington. In 1937 he entered the service of the Government. He was appointed commissioner of the

New Zealand Pavilion at the Glasgow Exhibition, and was a collaborator at the League of Nations. Before becoming Deputy-Director of Publicity in New Zealand at the outbreak of the war, Captain Hall was publicity officer for the Railways Department and editor of the “Railways Magazine.” He left New Zealand with the Second Echelon as the first official war correspondent. Already a Master of Arts of the University qf New Zealand. Captain Hall studied law while he was in the German prison camp. He passed the examinations as a bachelor of laws, and had completed two sections of the examinations for the degree of master.