![]() Frank joined the company in January 1932. Packer was appointed managing editor of Associated Newspapers. When Sir James Joynton Smith bought out the Packers' shares in 1931, R. The shares were divided among ordinary shareholders in Smith's Newspapers and the Packers received about 173,000 of them. In 1930 Sir Hugh Denison acquired the Daily Guardian and Sunday Guardian for £175,000 and 400,000 preference shares in Associated Newspapers Ltd. Although his financial flair was already obvious, his promotion was resented by a number of people who depicted him as a reckless gambler and playboy. Back at Smith's, he served as assistant business manager and then as advertising director. Frank and Claude McKay accompanied the winner Beryl Mills on a tour of the United States of America. ![]() His return to Smith's Newspapers in 1926 coincided with the first Miss Australia contest. About 1924 he went jackerooing in the central west of New South Wales digging up weeds dispelled the appeal of life on the land. Revelling in schemes to expose corruption, Frank found himself unloading newsprint and working in the engine-room, for his father insisted that he learn every aspect of newspaper production. In 1923 Packer became a cadet on the Daily Guardian, recently launched by Smith's Newspapers Ltd (a company in which his father held a one-third share). He did not sit for the Intermediate certificate. Despite an accident which caused the loss of most of the sight in his right eye, he was 'strong as a bear, aggressive, full of fight' and participated enthusiastically in Rugby Union football, cricket and rowing. A mischievous youngster and a poor student, Frank attended Abbotsholme and Turramurra colleges, Wahroonga Grammar School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore). Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer (1906-1974), media proprietor, was born on 3 December 1906 at Kings Cross, Sydney, elder child of Robert Clyde Packer, a Tasmanian-born journalist, and his wife Ethel Maude, née Hewson (d.1947), who came from Ireland.
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