DetailsJohn Charles Hunt was Shire President of the first elected Hornsby Shire Council in 1906. He served as a Councillor until 1908.
He is remembered in the naming of Hunt Reserve Mount Colah.
Born in Dural in 1856 he was the son of Dural orchardist George Hunt and grandson of convict Richard Hunt.
Educated at Newington College, he returned to the family property at Dural where he worked until his father's death in 1899. At the time of his nomination to the Provisional Council of Hornsby Shire he was living in Parramatta. John Hunt took an active interest in public affairs. He was President of the Central Cumberland Agricultural and Horticultural Association, which met at Castle Hill, and Vice President of the Fruitgrowers Union of New South Wales. He endeavoured to improve the lot of the Hills District orchardists who spent hours transporting their fruit to distant railheads. To achieve this he became a spokesman for the Carlingford-Dural Railway League, presenting its case for a railway line to Dural to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works in 1900. Councillor Hunt's career in government began with his election to Hornsby Shire Council in 1906. In 1908 he was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the Liberal Member for Sherbrook until his retirement in 1920.
As well as an involvement in public affairs John Hunt also took a keen interest in the new inventions of his age. KeywordsDuralHunt, John CharlesCouncillorsHornsby Shire Council
