OBITUARY Mr E. C. Huie, Founder Of Two Newspapers

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 15

OBITUARY Mr E. C. Huie, Founder Of Two Newspapers

Mr Edward Chalmers Huie, : who died at Springwood, in the Blue Mountains, New ’ South Wales, last week, was a prominent and at times stormy figure in the New Zealand newspaper industry in the 19305. He was 90. As the founder of the “Sun" in Christchurch he was a central character in the newspaper “war” when Christchurch had four daily newspapers. He lost in the attempt to keep the newspaper going, as he had lost in Auckland where he also started a “Sun” newspaper. Mr Huie was an Australian journalist who came to Christchurch in 1906 as the editor of “Truth,” which was an evening newspaper owned by the Christchurch Press Company and which was renamed the “Evening News” in 1909. He left the editor’s chair in 1912 when he floated the Canterbury Publishing Company with a capital of £41,000 to publish the “Sun.” Under his leadership as managing-editor the “Sun” made many journalistic advances. He is given the credit of being the first to publish Dame Ngaio Marsh, now famous as a writer, and the “Sun” was the first New Zealand newspaper to publish a Labour political column, written by Mr D. G. Sullivan, who became a Minister in the first Labour Government. Mr Huie started the “Auckland Sun” in 1927 but it

[could not survive competition from the established newspapers and went out of existence in September, 1930. Five years later the Christchurch “Sun” followed after pricecutting and extensive negotiations. In 1936 Mr Huie joined the staff of “The Press” in an advisory capacity and a few months later he went to London as the newspaper’s resident representative there. He held that position until his retirement from newspapers late in 1939. After farming for some years in New Zealand he retired to Australia. MR J. A. TREMAIN "The Press** Special Service AUCKLAND, Feb. 26. Mr John Alfred Tremain, Auckland regional manager of the Northern Building Society, has died, aged 52. Born in Auckland, Mr Tremain was educated at Takapuna Grammar School. He later qualified as a member of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. After the war he joined the Northern Building Society and in 1950 he was appointed regional manager for Christchurch when the society opened a branch there. In 1959 he wats transferred to Auckland as regional manager.

<N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH. The Taranaki junior golf team successfully defended the Weber Shield, symbol of supremacy among New Zealand’s junior golfing societies, by beating Waikato by 27 points to 9 at the Ngamotu links. New Plymouth, yesterday. The Taranaki team won 13 and halved one of the 18 matches played.