NOTED JOURNALIST

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 10

NOTED JOURNALIST

DEA+H O.F MR E. G. R. PETERSON. Mr F. G. R. Peterson, special correspondent in India of the London Times, shot himself dead at his hotel in Delhi on January 27. Mr Franklin George Reginald Peterson, wlio was aged 41 years, was the son of the late Professor Franklin S. Peterson, who was formerly Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne. Mr Peterson's uncle, Sir Henry Peterson, was principal of the Magill University, Canada. Mr Peterson was educated at the Melbourne Grammar School, and subsequently at the University of Melbourne, where ho studied law. While still a student at the university Mr Peterson began his association with the Argus as a contributor to the “Oriel” column. He was later associate to .Mr Justice Higgins. On the outbreak of war Air Peterson enlisted, and served in New Guinea. In August, 11719, he was appointed to the literary staff of the Argus. When the late Lord Northcliffe visited Australia in 1921 ho was interviewed on behalf of the Argus by Air Peterson, and Lord Northcliffe wa.s so much impressed by the report of that interview that he offered Mr Peterson .an appointment on the literary staff of the Times. The offer was accepted, and Air Peterson left Alelbournc late in 1921. One of his first commissions from Lord Nortlicliffe was to attend the AVasliington Disarmament Conference as 'one (of the representatives of the Times. When he returned to London lie became a. leader writer on the Times staff, and lie later became a travelling representative of the Times in the Dominions. In this capacity he visited New Zealand, Canada, the Near East, and other countries. As Dominions editor of the Times he was commissioned in to visit Australia to prepare matter for the publication of a special supplement of the Times to mark the opening of the Federal Parliament at Canberra by the Duke of York.