Memorial service for Price

JAKARTA: A memorial service will be held on Valentine's Day for the late Macalister "Mac" Price, the deputy head of the New Zealand Embassy and consul general to Indonesia from 1989 to 1992.

The Feb. 14 service, to be held at the New Zealand Residence in Kuala Lumpur, coincides with the wedding anniversary of Price and his Indonesian-born wife Nina Sudiono.

Price died in Adelaide, South Australia, on Jan. 10, while undergoing long-term medical treatment. He was buried in Auckland on Jan. 14.

He is survive by his wife and three sons, Hamish, Duncan and Andrew, and four grandchildren.

During his last months in Adelaide, Price completed a book on a political assassination which rocked Samoa in 1999. -- JP