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DEATH OF MR. R. C.
PACKER
Former Managing Editor
Of Associated Newspapers
LONDON, April 12.
Mr. Robert Clyde Packer, formerly
managing editor of Associated News- <*>
papers, Ltd., Sydney, died on the
Maloja, which left for Australia by way
of the Meditteranean on April 6.
Mr Packer, who was 55 years of age,
was born in Hobart. He was a re
porter on the "Evening News, Syd
ney, and in 1908 joined the Sydney
"Sunday Times," of which be was edi
tor from 1913 to 1915. He was a sub
editor of the "Sun" from 1316 to 1919,
when he Joined Sir Joynton Smith
and Mrs. C. E. F. McKay in founding
"Smith's Weekly," and later the "Daily
Guardian" and the "Sunday Guardian."
These two latter newspapers were sub
sequently purchased by Associated
Newspapers. Ltd. From 1931 until last
year Mr. Packer was managing editor
of Associated Newspapers, Ltd. His
son, Mr. Frank Packer, recently made
a hurried trip to England on learning
of his father's illness.
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