JUBILEE IN JOURNALISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18757, 10 January 1923, Page 5

JUBILEE IN JOURNALISM

MR P. SELIG’S RETIREMENT. (Fbom Oob Own Correspondent.) ; CHRISTCHURCH, January, 9. Mr P. Selig’s resignation as manager of the Christchurch Press Company,; .-was accepted to-day by the board of directors, who voted him a very generous retiring allowance. He is the third son of the late Rev. B. A. Selig, of Penzance, Cornwall, and he was born in Melbourne, the family removing to Wellington when he was only seven years of age. He was educated privately, and entered the Government Printing Office as copy-holder. Later he joined the staff of the Lyttelton Times,but was compelled for health reasons to seek- a milder climate, and he settled in Sydney. After a sjay of a few years, there ho returned to Christchurch and founded the New Zealand Referee, which in its tenth year of publication was purchased by the Press Company and incorporated in, the Weekly Press. Mr Solig going over aa editor, which position he resigned on being appointed manager of the company. Mr Sciig, in his earlier days, was an active supporter of amateur sport. Ha sat for years as a member of the Council of the New r Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. He suggested the formation of the Canterbury Public Schools’ Amateur .Athletic Association, which holds an annual display. In more recent years he .was compelled to drop his private hobbies,' the ■ only position he has retained being .tha# of "chairman of the New Zealand Trotting Association, which he has held since the formation of the association, having been re-elected each season for 23, successive years. Mr Selig has had n lengthy term as, director of the Press Assoojation, and hasbeen chairman at different rimes. He was . the first president of the Master Printers’ Federation, and is a member of the New , Zealand Council of the Empire Press Union.,, For 15 years he also found time to devote himself to the duties of chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association,' which at, his suggestion has been reorganised on ' the lines of the Canadian Publishers’ Association. Speaking at the presentation made to Mr Sciig by his fellow citizens prior to his - departure ns one of New Zealand’s representatives for the Imperial Press Confer-. enco in Canada in 1920. Mr Robert' Bell, managing- director of the Lyttelton- Times Comnany. said “that during the 13 years Mr Selig had occupied the position of chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association the work he had done had been of incalculable benefit to the whole of the press of the dominion.” _ At the last annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, special . reference was made to the fact that_ Mr Selig was approaching his jubilee as a journalist.