Obituaries Australia

Mr. John Lloyd Price, M.H.R., formerly Agent-General in London for South Australia, and a member of South Australia, and a member of the State Parliament for 10 years, died in his sleep at his home. Cross road, Highgate, yesterday. He was 59.

Mr. Price was apparently in good health on Tuesday, having lunched lunched with the Premier (Mr. Playford) and the Chief Secretary (Mr. McEwin) at Parliament House.

The burial will take place at the Mitcham Cemetery this afternoon with full State honors. Arrangements are being made by the Commonwealth Government.

The Premier (Mr. Playford), State Ministers and members of both State and Federal Parliaments will attend the service. The funeral will leave the home of Mr. Price at Cross roads. Highgate, at 2.30 pm., and a service at St. Augustine's Church, Unley, will follow. 

Mr. McHugh. MP, a former Federal Labor member, will represent the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party at the funeral.

Mr. Price was the son of the late Thomas Price, who was Premier or South Australia for five years, and was a Labor representative until the breach in the Scullin Government in 1931. He was elected to the Port Adelaide district in the House of Assembly in 1915 and held that seat until he resigned on being appointed Agent-General for South Australia in 1925. Mr. Price held that office until 1928. On returning to South Australia he contested the Boothby seat in the Federal Parliament and was elected in the same year. Mr. Price represented that district up till the time of his death. He was educated at Mitcham and Unley schools, the Adelaide Business Training College, and the Adelaide School of Mines. In 1898 Mr. Price joined the State railway service, holding various positions until he resigned to contest a Parliamentary election. Before his election to Parliament he served as councillor and alderman in the Port Adelaide City Council. Mr. Price was Government Whip in the Assembly, and was secretary of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party from 1929 to 1931, when he resigned from that party and became secretary oi the Federal Parliamentary Independent Australian Party, which be helped to form. Later there was an amalgamation with the Federal Parliamentary United Australian Party, and he was elected secretary of the new party. Mr. Price was a member of the Federal Honorary Bankruptcy Legislation Committee in 1932-36. He took a keen interest in literary society work and was at one time a prominent member of the Hawthorn Literary and Debating Society, and for years was a member of the Unley City Parliament.

Positions held by Mr. Price during his association with the Labor movement included those of member of the executive of the Railway Officers' Association, member of the Government General Workers' Association, and honorary secretary of the SA branch of the Federated Masters and Engineers' Association. Mr. Price was a member of the Price Memorial Oval Trust. Before his entry into Parliament he made a trip to Europe and America and investigated social problems there. He served as secretary of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party.

Mr. Price was a prominent cyclist in his earlier days, and was also keenly interested in cricket. He played A grade bowls for Sturt. He has left a widow and one son, Flight-Lieut. Price, who has distinguished himself in the R.A.F. overseas, and one daughter, Miss Joan Price.

Other members of the family are:— Brothers—Messrs. E. H. Price (engineer for construction in the SA Harbors Board), W. D. Price (general manager of the Government Produce Department), and T. A. Price (paymaster of the Railways Department); sisters—Mesdames E. A. Pengelley, of Brighton; H. A. Wicks, Highgate, and A. C. Clarke, of Kensington Gardens.