NATIONAL SERVICE
MR J. S. HUNTER APPOINTED DIRECTOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr J. S. Hunter has been appointed Director of National Service The appointment was announced last night by the Prime Minister, Mr 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. 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 in the following year to become the first Commissioner for Transport. Later he was appointed Commissioner of Employment, and when the Social Security Act came into operation he became director of the registration branch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1940, Page 4
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175NATIONAL SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1940, Page 4
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