William Hall-Jones

The Honourable Sir William Hall-Jones KCMG

16th Prime Minister of New Zealand
In office 10 June 1906 – 6 August 1906
Monarch	Edward VII
Governor	William Plunket
Preceded by	Richard Seddon
Succeeded by	Joseph Ward
Constituency	Timaru
Personal details
Born	(1851-01-16)16 January 1851 Folkestone, Kent, England
Died	19 June 1936(1936-06-19) (aged 85) Wellington, New Zealand
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Fanny Smith^[1]
Children	Fred Hall-Jones
Religion	Anglican

Sir William Hall-Jones, KCMG (16 January 1851 – 19 June 1936) was the 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand from June 1906 until August 1906. He was the interim Prime Minister after the death of Richard Seddon and the return from overseas of Joseph Ward.

Early years 1
Member of Parliament 2
See also 3
Notes 4
References 5
External links 6

Early years

Hall-Jones was born in Folkestone, Kent, England, landed at Dunedin in 1873 and became a carpenter and later a builder in Timaru.^[1]

Member of Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate	Party
1890	10th	Timaru	Independent
1890–1893	11th	Timaru	Independent
1893–1896	12th	Timaru	Liberal
1896–1899	13th	Timaru	Liberal
1899–1902	14th	Timaru	Liberal
1902–1905	15th	Timaru	Liberal
1905–1908	16th	Timaru	Liberal

The death of John McKenzie.

Hall-Jones became a cabinet minister in 1896, was acting Prime Minister during the absence from the country of Richard Seddon in 1906 and formed an administration immediately after Seddon's funeral. During his brief period as Prime Minister, he was Colonial Treasurer, Minister of Labour, Minister of Education, Minister for Public Works, and Minister of Marine.^[3]

However he announced that he would only hold power until Sir Joseph Ward's return from abroad. He accepted the Railways and Public Works portfolios in the subsequent Ward administration. He succeeded William Pember Reeves as High Commissioner for New Zealand in London in December 1908, returned to New Zealand at the end of his term in 1912, and was appointed to the Legislative Council by Massey.

Hall-Jones was a mild mannered man with a fully earned reputation as an outstanding administrator.

He died in Wellington.^[4]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Hall-Jones, John. "Hall-Jones, William 1851-1936".
^ Wilson 1985, p. 202.
^ Wilson 1985, p. 73.
^ [1]

References

Foster, Bernard J. (1966), "HALL-JONES, Hon. Sir William", An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, retrieved 2008-05-22
Hall-Jones, Frederick G. (1969), Sir William Hall-Jones, the last of the old liberals, Invercargill, [N.Z.]: Hall-Jones Family
Hamer, David A. (1988), The New Zealand Liberals: the years of power, 1891-1912, Auckland, [N.Z.]: Auckland University Press,
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer.
The Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia, 1988

External links

Prime Ministers Office Biography: William Hall-Jones

Government offices
Preceded by Richard Seddon	Prime Minister of New Zealand 1906	Succeeded by Joseph Ward
Political offices
Preceded by Richard Seddon	Minister of Education 1906	Succeeded by George Fowlds
Preceded by Joseph Ward	Minister of Railways 1906–1908	Succeeded by John A. Millar
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Richard Turnbull	Member of Parliament for Timaru 1890–1908	Succeeded by James Craigie
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by William Pember Reeves	High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom 1908–1912	Succeeded by Thomas Mackenzie

Premiers and Prime Ministers of New Zealand

Sewell Fox Stafford Domett Whitaker Weld Waterhouse Vogel Pollen Atkinson Grey Hall Stout Ballance Seddon Hall-Jones Ward Mackenzie Massey Bell Coates Forbes Savage Fraser Holland Holyoake Nash Marshall Kirk Watt (acting) Rowling Muldoon Lange Palmer Moore Bolger Shipley Clark Key

Liberal Party of New Zealand

Party leaders Names in italics served as Prime Minister of New Zealand	John Ballance (1890–1893) Richard Seddon (1893–1906) William Hall-Jones (1906) Joseph Ward (1906–1912) Thomas Mackenzie (1912–1913) Joseph Ward (1913–1919) William MacDonald (1919–1920) Thomas Wilford (1920–1925) George Forbes (1925–1927) Joseph Ward (1928–1930) George Forbes (1930–1935)

Governments	First Second Coalition

Related articles	Young New Zealand Party United Party National Party New Liberal Party Radical Party

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