Ashley Hunter (cartoonist)

Ashley John Barsley Hunter (1854-1932) was a New Zealand engineer, artist, photographer and cartoonist. Although principally employed as an engineer, he was one of the founders of the "New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal" (initially published as the "Auckland Graphic") in 1877. His cartoons appeared in the "Graphic" throughout the 1880s and 1890s, often appearing as full-page images on the front cover.
Biography.
Hunter was born in England and moved to New Zealand in 1871 with some of his family. He married Eliza Jane Halyday in 1878 and died in Auckland in 1932.
After initially working as a photographer on arrival in New Zealand, he was appointed as an engineering cadet in the Public Works Department in Wellington in 1872. He continued to work for the Public Works Department until 1882 when he went into private practice in partnership with James Stewart. He was an engineer for the Westport Coal Company (from 1894-1897), the Paparoa Coal Company (1906-1910), the Waipa Coal Company and the Westport Stockton Coal Company (1910-1913). In 1918, he was responsible for laying out the Glen Afton Coal Mine and the Huntly Branch Railway.
He was a member of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers and President of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers from 1922 to 1923.
External links.
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