Jock Churton
History
JH Curton (Jock)
FLETCHER MAN IN INDONESIA
One more milestone in an interesting career was reached when J. H. Churton, after nearly 20 years with Fletchers, left the company to take up permanent residence in Jakarta, Indonesia. There, with J. Anderson, a former United States career diplomat and petroleum company executive as co-director, he has established a specialist trade promotion company, Inter-Pacific Enterprises. On his return to New Zealand from overseas war service, "Jock" Churton became Secretary to the New Zealand Federation of Cooperatives in 1946 and in 1949 was granted a bursary to study cooperative housing in Europe. He returned to New Zealand for a short period, but most of the next few years were spent working overseas in South America, Japan and the United Kingdom.
At Fletchers, he became Property Officer and a Director of Fletcher Trust. He was appointed General Manager in 1961 and was managing Director 1967-70 and was Managing Director of Fletcher Development from 1270-73.
During his period with Fletcher Trust and Fletcher Development, he saw and guided the tremendous growth of the company's interest in all forms of property development
-high-rise office buildings, shopping centres, factories, industrial estates, residential subdivisions, apartments and town houses., the Auckland Downtown redevelopment and major new developments such as Wiri city centre.
In 1973 he became an Associate Director of Fletcher Holdings with responsibility for the Group’s South east Asia interest, and has spend much of his time in Indonesia in the last two years. When Fletchers decided not to maintain a permanent office in Jakarta, he returned briefly to New Zealand.
Now he is back in Jarkarta under his own flag - but still with an assignment from Fletchers, a study of the projected industrial estate at Medam in North Sumatra.
Inter-Pacific will offer management services to NewZealand and Australian firms aiming to gain a foothold in Indonesia.
It will also represent Southern Pacific Properties (A Slater-Walker company in Hong Kong) and Travelodge (Australia), whose first franchised hotel in Indonesia was recently established.
[Arrowhead, Winter 1974]
FLETCHER MAN IN INDONESIA
One more milestone in an interesting career was reached when J. H. Churton, after nearly 20 years with Fletchers, left the company to take up permanent residence in Jakarta, Indonesia. There, with J. Anderson, a former United States career diplomat and petroleum company executive as co-director, he has established a specialist trade promotion company, Inter-Pacific Enterprises. On his return to New Zealand from overseas war service, "Jock" Churton became Secretary to the New Zealand Federation of Cooperatives in 1946 and in 1949 was granted a bursary to study cooperative housing in Europe. He returned to New Zealand for a short period, but most of the next few years were spent working overseas in South America, Japan and the United Kingdom.
At Fletchers, he became Property Officer and a Director of Fletcher Trust. He was appointed General Manager in 1961 and was managing Director 1967-70 and was Managing Director of Fletcher Development from 1270-73.
During his period with Fletcher Trust and Fletcher Development, he saw and guided the tremendous growth of the company's interest in all forms of property development
-high-rise office buildings, shopping centres, factories, industrial estates, residential subdivisions, apartments and town houses., the Auckland Downtown redevelopment and major new developments such as Wiri city centre.
In 1973 he became an Associate Director of Fletcher Holdings with responsibility for the Group’s South east Asia interest, and has spend much of his time in Indonesia in the last two years. When Fletchers decided not to maintain a permanent office in Jakarta, he returned briefly to New Zealand.
Now he is back in Jarkarta under his own flag - but still with an assignment from Fletchers, a study of the projected industrial estate at Medam in North Sumatra.
Inter-Pacific will offer management services to NewZealand and Australian firms aiming to gain a foothold in Indonesia.
It will also represent Southern Pacific Properties (A Slater-Walker company in Hong Kong) and Travelodge (Australia), whose first franchised hotel in Indonesia was recently established.
[Arrowhead, Winter 1974]
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