SIR GEORGE FENWICK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 7

SIR GEORGE FENWICK.

KNIGHTHOOD ANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph.- -Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Mr. George Fenwick, manager-director of Otago "Daily Times" and "Witness" Company, has received a cable from Mr. Lloyd George, informing him that His Majesty s the King has conferred a knighthood on him. Sir George Fenwick, who has been honoured as chairman of the New Zealand section of the British Empire Press delegation which visited England and the battle front last year as the guests of the British Government, has had a long and interesting newspaper career. Born in Sunderland, England, seventytwo years ago, he made his first acquaintance with the Press in Dunedin twelve years later, when he was apprenticed to the 4 "Otago Witness," then a very small weekly sheet, and the only newspaper published in the province. With the exception of a few months that he spent in search of experience in Australia when a youth, Mr. Fenwick remained loyal to Otago, and by dint of ability and force of character he became one of the strong factora in the newspaper life of New Zealand. He is managing-director of "Otago Daily Times" and "Witnese" Company, and for a considerable period was editor of the "Times." He wae one of the founders of the first Pres.s Association of New Zealand, an exclusive corporation formed by the proprietors of the principal morning dailies, and when the existing United Press Association was formed in 1879, he and Mr. A. G. Horton represented the morning association, and Messrs. H. Brett and H. Blundell the evening papers" at the conference for amalgamation. Mr. Fenwick, as he then was, occupied the position of chairman of the Association for a number of terms, he and Mr. Brett alternately holding the office until recent years. "He was also chairman of the New Zealand branch of the Empire Press Union, and a director of the "Lyttelton Times" Company. Among his activities outside his newspaper interests Sir George Fenwick was for a number of years chairman of the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramways Company, and was largely instrumental in bringing about the sale of the tramways to the Dunedin City Council. He is also actively associated "with other com- j mereial enterprises. He was the founder , of the Otago Society for the Prevention ] of Cruelty to Animals, and in many ways i he has been an ardent worker in matters J < affecting the social well-being of the j ] community. ' L