OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27193, 10 November 1953, Page 12

OBITUARY

MR R. C. PRICE 1 Mr Reginald Charles Price, wh|U died in Christchurch, recently, was mm electrical engineer with considerabhK overseas experience and one Gf th»® first shift engineers to have wodndE on ‘he Otira tunnel. He was aged® 73. | Mr Price was the son of an old St I Albans family, and was bom in ISmj at his boyhood home in road, opposite St. Matthew’s ChmtoX This old house is still standing tndgy.W Mr Price was educated at thi. Albans School and Canterbury Uni® versity College. While in his twenties# he travelled to England, and from Ufim to 1906 worked for Cross and Knowles# Ltd., manufacturers. For 15 nwnttiM from March, 1907, he worked for tbs# Underground Electric Railways Com#-, pany of London, Ltd., and his thiril# position while overseas was as seconai engineer on a dredge at Southampton#; Mr Price was a member of the# King’s Colonials, a detachment of New# Zealanders formed in England for ter# ritorial training. I •On returning to New Zealand worked on the Otira tunnel project# He was married in 1911, and in lllw he took up a position at Ashburto# until 1916, when he joined the CajteW bury Frozen Meat MS Price worked at Belfast for the# greater part of the 24 years he w# with the company, but he was M® Pareora for three years and alsoet# Fairfield. He retired in 1940. # Mr Price is survived by two Messrs R. H. and M. E. Price, and s# daughter, Mrs J- Small, of Whangareffls MR FRANCIS O’NEILL I (New Zealand Press Association) II GREYMOUTH, November 8. || A former New Zealand lightweigKjl:. professional champion and one of taHt* best boxers produced on the WjMHB Coast, Mr Francis (Muggins) O*Neflt|| died this morning in his fifty-mHih.il year after a brief illness. 91 Mr O’Neill beat Jack Keenan aMI Auckland for the New Zealand pro«| fessionai lightweight championsßML which he later lost to Les Murray.Ji In his professional career Mr made several visits to Australia, whtfK: he lost to Eugene Volaire and best® Havilah Uren. fs Mr O’Neill had recently acted MnA referee at several New Zeaand cha*?lt pionship contests.