Guy Scholefield

After his father's death in 1885, the family relocated to Milton, where he received his secondary education at Tokomairiro District High School.

When he transferred his studies to Christchurch to continue at Canterbury College, he became associate editor of The Press; he held that role in 1903 and 1904.

In the following year, he worked on the inaugural edition of Who's who in New Zealand and the western Pacific alongside Emil Schwabe.

[1] In the 1919 King's Birthday Honours, Scholefield was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services as a war correspondent.

[2] Scholefield returned to New Zealand in late 1919 and settled in Masterton, where he subsequently became the editor of the regional newspaper Wairarapa Age.

[5] On 17 June 1908, Scholefield married Adela Lucy Stapylton Bree at St Paul's Cathedral in Wellington.