A WELL KNOWN JOURNALIST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1917, Page 4

A WELL KNOWN JOURNALIST.

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AUCKLAND, Aug. 26. Obituary —William Lane, editor of the New Zealand Herald. He was one of .the best known journalists in Australasia, aged 56 years, having been born at Bristol, England. At the age of 15 he migrated to America and ap- j prenticed himself as a compositor, eventually entering the literary side of journalism. Ten years later he wenk to Brisbane (Queensland), where he occupied prominent positions. Sube«qtient to the industrial troubles of 1890-2, he inaugurated a New Australia movement, and then went to Paraguay as head of a socialist settlement, but this failed badly. On returning to Australia in 1899, he became the editor of the Sydney Worker, but soon afterwards resigned on account of a disagreement with what he regarded as the unpatriotic attitude of the controlling body. He then came to Auckland, and has since been connected with the Herald, having succeeded the late Mr W. S. Douglas as editor in 1913. His special articles under the pen name of "Tohunga" were a feature of the Herald's weekly supplement. His elder son, Corporal Donald, was killed at the Gallipoli landing, and another son is now on his way to the front.