NEWSPAPERMAN'S JUBILEE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 6

NEWSPAPERMAN'S JUBILEE

Mr Charles Price's 60 Years Journalism OCCASION HONOURED Sixty years of continuous participation in journalism were completed today by Mr Charles Price, a member of the Napier staff of the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. Mr Price, who has reported events in practically every district from Woodville in the sonth to Wairoa in the nq?th, is well known by the many people with whom he has come in contact, particularly those among the older generation. It was on September 6, 1877, that he joined the staff of the Hawke's Bay Herald, the first newspaper published in Hawke's Bay, as assistant in the publishing department and in charge of the periodicals distribution of the bookselling section of the book and stationery business then run in conjunction with the Herald. Mr Price successively became publisher, advertising clerk, accountant with charge of the advertising department and managing clerk in charge of the jobprinting department. It is perhaps as a reporter of current events and a commentator upon racing and most other branches of sporting aetivity, as well as upon farming topics, that Mr Price is perhaps best known. A retentive memory and a facile pen have enabled him to write convincingly and copiously upon a wide range of topics. His zealous regard for the news requirements of his paper's service to the public has kept him ever in the field as a news-getter, and to-day, despjte his long period of service, he is as enthusiastie as ever he was. During the past 60 years Mr Price has had only three weeks' absence from work through sickness. With tlie arnalgama-

tion of the Herald into the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Mr Price has continued to give the same loyal and conscientious service that had markod his work over the previous half-century. Mr and Mrs Price have a family -of three, two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Frank, after serving his apprenticeship as a linotype operator with the Herald-Tribune, has gone overscas to seek wider experience. In order fittingly to mark the diamond jubilee of Mr Price 's employment, the opportunity was taken yesterday by the staff of the Herald-Tribune to make to him a presentation of a dinner-set, while the direetors of the company presented him with a mantel clock. The presentations wero made by Mr W. A.' Whitlock, managing-direetor, on behalf of the staff, and by Mr R. Gardiper, on behalf of the directorate, both of wlioin referrcd to the many admirable qualities which Mr Price had shbwn as a journalist and as a man during Ms long service to the firm. Mr B. T. Dinwiddie, manager of the Herald prior to the earthquake, also paid tribute to Mr Price 's long and valuable assoeiation with the profession of journalism and with the Herald in partieular, while representatives of the various departments spoke similarly. After Mr Price had expressed thanks for the gifts and the eompliments which had been paid him, eheers for him and for Mrs Price concluded a .happy gathering. Mr Price was entertained at morning tea at the Trocadero Tea-rooms. Napier, this morning bythe Mavor, Mr C. 0. Morse, and a number of his old-time friends, who extended to him congratu lations upon attaining Ms diamond jubilee in newspaper service.