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Thomas Donald Horn Hall (1885-1971) was born in Wellington. His diaries reveal him to be conservative, devout and prim. They offer a very unsympathetic insider look into the first Labour government.
They also provide an insight into the then-important moral re-armament movement and of a High Church layman of the first half of the 20th century. Mr Hall's diaries also cover an array of other topics, including his concern with the moral decline of society, particularly among the young.
Mr Hall obtained an LLB from Wellington University College and was a public servant. He became Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1930, spending a lot of time in close contact with MPs. He travelled widely (partly on a grant from the Carnegie Corporation) and wrote a history book and many articles, and was President of the New Zealand Library Association in 1938.
