JOURNALIST AND ROTARIAN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 4

JOURNALIST AND ROTARIAN.

It may be mainly within the •guild of newspaper men that the death of Air. Thomas Currie List, announced to-day, will be fully realised as a very distinct loss to journalism in tlie Dominion. By them he had, as proprietor and editor of the “Taranaki Daily News,” been regarded as occupying a very high place in their own ranks. In those capacities he had formed a full conception of the duties ho owed to the community he sei .cd, with the result that his own paper had achieved a forward position not only as a purveyor of news but also as a reliable guide in tlie formation of public opinion on both political, economic and social questions. In all these respects there could never be any doubt as to the sincerity of the views to which he was able to give convincing expression. To tub general public of tin* Dominion, however, it has been more as a leader of the Rotarian movement, than as a journalist that he has latterly become known. 'Appointed early lust year to the governorship of the New Zealand branch of the organisation, he at once threw himself whole-heartedly into promoting the practical fulfilment of the ideals upon which it is based. Always thorough in ■whatever he undertook, he devoted himself almost entirely to the inculcation among members of the motives by which they should be actuated in developing its pub'/’ activities. There can be no doubt that both by precept and example he has done much to direct both thought and action along right, lines. In him not only the people of Taranaki but those of the whole Dominion have lost a good journalist, a good Rotarian, and a good citizen.