LONG JOURNALISTIC CAREER

Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 29, 29 October 1945, Page 8

LONG JOURNALISTIC CAREER

Member of Press Gallery

The completion by Mr. C. E. Wheeler of 40 years’ service as a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery was recognized by his gallery colleagues last week, when they entertained him at a social function in Parliament House, to which they invited members of the Ministerial secretarial corps. Also present was Mr. Doidge. M.P. for Tauranga. who before the last war a member of the Press Gallery and was an associate of Mr. Wheeler on the staff of the Auckland "Star.” Mr. 11. Oakley' Browne, another old colleague of Mr. Wheeler, presided, and in proposing Mr. Wheeler’s health, which was enthusiastically drunk, referred to Mr. Wheeler's intimate association with New Zealand politics l from the days of Mr. Seddon's regime. Mr. Wheeler's career as a Parliamentary Press representative covered a period during which there had been 10 Prime Ministers. Mr. Browne minded Mr. Wheeler, on behalf

of the gallery, a framed enlarged autographed photograph of the members of the gallery taken in their places in the House of Representatives and with lhe Speaker, Mr. Schramm, in his robes sitting in the Speaker's chair.