OBITUARY.
MB T. PRICE. PREMIER SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
United Press Association —Copyright.
. ADELAIDE, June 1. Mr T. Price, the Premier, who had boon ill for many months, died last night.
(Received June 1, 10.20 p.m.)
LONDON, June 1
Many Sympathetic references have been made to the- death of tho Hon. Thomas Price.
[The Hon. Thomas Price . was the first Labor Premier of South Australia. He- arrived in Australia in 1883, and was for some time clerk of works erecting Government locomotive shops, and worked at his trade-as a stonecutter in the erection of Parliament Buildings, Adelaide. He had sat in the Assembly since 1893—for Sturt until 1902, and for the re-formed district of Torrens since. He was secretary of tho Masons’ and, Bricklayers’ Society in 1891, and of tho Labor Party in 1900, and leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party from 1901-5. iHo was bom in 1852.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2517, 2 June 1909, Page 5
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