OBITUARY.
MR TOM PRICE. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright ADELAIDE, June 1. Mr Price, tho Premier, who has been ill for many months, died last night.
Mr Price, who was born in Wales, lived for a number of years in Liverpool, where lie was educated at a penny school in that city. He arrived in Australia in 1883, and was for some time clerk of works in the Government employ at Islington locomotive shops, and worked at his trade at a stonecutter in the erection of Parliament buildings, Adelaide. He has been a member of the. Assembly since 1893. He was secretary of the Masons' and Bricklayers' Society in 1891, and of the Labour party in 1900, and leader of the Parliamentary Labour party, 1901-/5. He has been Premier since 1905. Received 10.20 p.m., Juno Ist. LONDON, June 1. Many sympathetic references are made in tho press to the death of Mr Thomas Price.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13919, 2 June 1909, Page 5
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