EDITOR’S DEATH
Mr J. Moffett
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, May 16. Mr Jonh Moffat, editor of the "Otago Daily Times” since 1946, died in London this morning of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was aged 55. Mr Moffett was educated at Christ’s College and after leaving school joined the staff of the “Southland Daily News” as a reporter in 1923. In 1926 he came to “The Press,” and after some years as a reporter and later cable sub-editor joined the “Otago Daily Times” as literary editor and leader writer. He was appointed associate editor in 1945. Mr Moffett attended a Commonwealth Press Union conference in Canada in 1950 and then toured the United States on a State Department grant. He was a member of the !New Zealand Li’erary Fund [committee in 1951; a chairman of the New Zealand branch of the International Press Institute and in 1954 i was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. Mr Moffet published a monograph. “The Art of Russell Clark.” He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 17
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178EDITOR’S DEATH Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 17
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