["Presentation to Mr. Romans", The Western Mail (Perth, WA), Saturday 26 November 1910, page 44]
PRESENTATION TO MR. ROMANS.
On Monday afternoon at the Palace Hotel, the staff of the "West Australian" met to take leave of their late colleague, Mr. G. Romans, who has accepted an appointment on the Parliamentary Hansard staff. Mr. A. Canon presided, and after apologising for the unavoidable absence of the associate editor, Mr. Langler, and other absentees who, he said, were with them in spirit, expressed the genuine regret which was felt by all connected with the literary department of the paper at Mr. Romans's resignation. Their late colleague had from the day he joined the office grown in their esteem. He made fast friends by showing himself friendly, and by his readiness at all times to assist his colleagues, whether seniors or juniors. The quantity and quality of his work in the "West Australian" from day to day spoke for themselves. Mr. Romans was a capable and versatile journalist, peculiarly well equipped for the profession, and he (the chairman) regarded it as something of a calamity that circumstances were such that men gifted with a capacity for vivid and virile writing should be tempted to desert the Press for the more prosaic work of parliamentary reporting. He hoped that would not always be the case. Mr. Romans's relations with his colleagues had been of the happiest, and they were all sorry to part from him. He could only hope that the severance would be but for a season, and that Mr. Romans's renunciation of his old love would prove but a passing fancy which time would cure. Mr. Robertson, editor of the "Western Mail," at the request of the chairman, presented Mr. Romans with a case of pipes and tobacco jar as a souvenir of their past pleasant relations. His health having been duly honoured, Mr. Romans feelingly replied, and the toast of "Success to the 'West Australian' and 'Western Mail,'" concluded the proceedings.
