Trevor Alfred Housley CBE (31 October 1910 – 10 October 1968) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1965 until his death in October 1968.
Trevor Housley | |
|---|---|
| Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department | |
| In office 9 December 1965 – 10 October 1968 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Trevor Alfred Housley 31 October 1910 Gympie, Queensland |
| Died | 10 October 1968 (aged 57) Kew, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Resting place | Boroondara Cemetery |
| Nationality |  Australian |
| Spouse | Susan Maureen Reilly (m. 1935) |
| Occupation | Public servant |
Life and career
editTrevor Housley was born on 31 October 1910 in Gympie, Queensland.[1]
Housley served for four years as chief airways engineer in the Department of Civil Aviation,[2] until 1951 when he joined the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) as assistant general manager.[2] In 1956, he was appointed to OTC general manager.[1] In the general manager role, Housley led a delegation to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference in 1958 which recommended a worldwide telephone cable system be developed.[1] He returned to London in 1960 to convene a management committee responsible for plans to lay the British Commonwealth trans-Pacific cable between Australia and New Zealand.[3]
Housley was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in 1965.[2][4]
In 1967, he penned Communications in Modern Society, in which he argued that if public administrators could shift from paper communication to phone-calls, it would streamline the service and enable "quickly responsive sensitivity to public need".[5]
At Kew, Melbourne on 10 October 1968, while still in office as Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department, Housley died of an intracranial haemorrhage.[1]
Awards and honours
edit1961, Housley was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[1]
In 2012, a street in the Canberra suburb of Casey was named Housley Street in Trevor Housley's honour.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Maltby, George F, "Housley, Trevor Alfred (1910–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 21 November 2014
- ^ a b c "Postal chief named". The Canberra Times. 1 October 1965. p. 3.
- ^ "New Post For Director Of Telegraphs". The Canberra Times. 3 August 1960. p. 2.
- ^ CA 9: Postmaster-General's Department, Central Administration, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 21 November 2014
- ^ Housley, Trevor (June 1967). "Communications in Modern Society". Australian Journal of Public Administration. 26 (2): 108–112. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1967.tb00136.x.
- ^ Housley Street, ACT Government Environment and Planning Directorate, archived from the original on 21 November 2014