Mike Charles Price ZL2MCP
“He was a lovely man and he really inspired and supported me in my professional development.”
Melita Farley, of Whanganui multimedia company Double Farley also met Price through a GovHack collaboration.
“It was always lovely to see Mike,” she said.
“He was often working away from Whanganui so it was always nice to see him at the markets or around town. He was one of those people it was a pleasure to bump into so it’s sad we won’t see him any more.”
Another passion for Price was ham radio, which he discovered when he moved to Aramoho and met his neighbour John Love, who introduced him to the Wanganui Amateur Radio Society.
Price was hooked and joined regular “HamCram” weekends with club members as well as attending sessions in other centres. He even erected a receiver tower in his backyard.
Woodhouse said he was yet to fully register the absence of a person who had been such a constant in his life for 25 years.
“I think of Mike’s ‘Pythonesque’ sense of humour and I know he would find it amusing that he will still be my neighbour because the Aramoho Cemetery adjoins my property on two sides.”
Woodhouse said in all the years of friendship and business partnership there had been occasional differences of opinion but never an argument.
Left to Right, Mike ZL2MCP, John ZL2JEL and Russ ZL2AXN
at the 75th Anniversary history display at the Whanganui Public Library.
