Vale John Spiers: Editor and transport advocate
JOHN SPIERS, the former Daily Commercial News editor who died last week after a long battle with cancer, will be remembered for a lifelong fascination with transport in all its forms.
TRANSPORT VOICE: The late John Spiers as he appeared in a weekly column in DCN.
The New Zealand-born journalist came to prominence working for The Australian in the 1970s and 80s as aviation and later shipping editor.
In the late 1980s the then owner of DCN, Peter Isaacson, recruited John to take over the...
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