NOTED JOURNALIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22524, 15 September 1936, Page 10

NOTED JOURNALIST

FORMER LONDON EDITOR BRIEF AUCKLAND VISIT Well known in Fleet Street as news editor of tho Daily Mail under the late Lord Northcliffe, of whom he has drawn a striking portrait in "My Northcliffe Diary," published in 1931, Mr. Tom Clarke, now director of practical journalism at London University, is among the passengers on the Niagara, which arrived from Sydney yesterday. He is on a world tour with his daughter, Miss E. P. Clarke, and is returning to England after a visit to Australia, where he was at one time assistant editor of the Melbourne Herald, and found material for a book, "Marriage at 6 a.m." As a journalist Mr. Clarke was more disposed to seek information than give it when interviewed, and he asked a number of questions about the Labour Government and the effects of the new industrial legislation. Ho inquired about tho progress of the negotiations for an air mail service across the Tasman, and spoke ethusiastically of the proposed Empire route to bo operated by Imperial Airways. Mr. Clarke visited New Zealand 10 years ago, and stated yesterday that ho still had happy memories of the country.

Appointed to his ; present position last year, Mr. Clarke began his career in journalism in 1902. in the following four years he visited mftny parts ol" the Far East, and during the KussoJapanoso war he was special correspondent to the London Daily MaiLand the <?hicngo Tribune. Later ho wont to London as ne\?s editor of the Daily Sketch,. find in 1911 he joined the foreign staff of tho Daily Mail," to vhich htf was appointed news editor pn bis return from the Army in 1919. From 1923 to 192G Mr. Clarke was assistant editor of the Melbourne Herald.'Later he was editor and director of the News Chronicle, London, until 1933.