Hall-Jones, Sir William

Hall-Jones, Sir William

▪ prime minister of New Zealand
born , Jan. 16, 1851, Folkestone, Kent, Eng.
died June 19, 1936, Wellington, N.Z.

      politician and respected administrator who served for a short time as prime minister of New Zealand (1906) and who later was appointed High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom.

      A carpenter by trade, Hall-Jones emigrated to New Zealand (1873) and, enfranchised by the 1879 electoral reform, served in local government. Elected to Parliament (1890), he was at first aligned with the newly-formed Liberal Party, but after a policy disagreement he sat as an Independent (1893–96). The Liberal prime minister Richard Seddon (Seddon, Richard John) asked Hall-Jones to join his cabinet (1896) and later to serve as acting prime minister while Seddon visited Australia. Seddon died while at sea and Hall-Jones remained in office only seven weeks (June 21 to Aug. 6, 1906). He became High Commissioner (1908), was knighted (1910), and served on the Legislative Council (1913) until his death.

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