NOTED BUSINESS FIGURE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 7

NOTED BUSINESS FIGURE

DEATH OF SIR W. HUNT PUBLIC BODY SERVICE (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The death is announced of Sir William Duffus Hunt, of Wright Stephenson and Company Limited. The late Sir William Hunt was born in Mongomuni in 1867, and was educated in Auckland. He commenced his career on Blackstone Hill station, Central Otagb, of which he was appointed manager in 1888. In 1891 he opened a branch at Gore for Wright, Stephenson, and Company Limited, and was manager till 1890 when he opened and managed the Invercargill branch till he came to Wellington in 1918. He became a partner in the firm in 1899. and was appointed managing-director in 1906 on the formation of a limited company and was chairman in 1907.

He was chairman of the public service Royal commission in 1912, and chairman Of the taxation committee in 1923 and a member of the Royal commission on taxation in 1924, a member of the New Zealand Board of Agriculture in 1912-18. In addition to having been a member of the Meat Export Control Board, he held a number of important commercial positions and was closely identified with the work of breed societies. In 1935 he was appointed chairman of directors and one of the State directors of the former Mortgage Corporation. He was twice married and leaves a wife and two sons, Messrs. John and Whlliam Hunt.