The Canberra Times, Saturday 18 June 1932
(Adelaide, South Australia)

SIR JOHN QUICK
Death in Melbourne
AUSTRALIAN JURIST
AND FEDERATIONIST
MELBOURNE, Friday.
Sir John Quick, the former Deputy President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, died at his home at Camberwell to-day from heart failure. He had been ill about three weeks. The late Sir John Quick was one of the most brilliant of Australian jurists. He was living in retirement when his death occurred, having re- signed the Presidency of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court in 1928 when he was succeeded by Justice Lukin, who was later transferred to the Federal Bankruptcy Court.
Born in Cornwall in 1852, he commenced his legal career while a member of the literary staff of the Melbourne "Age," studying while working and finally emerging from the Melbourne University with the LL.D. degree. He was an original member of the Commonwealth Parliament, being returned in 1901 for Bendigo at the first general election after the Federation, for which he had done so much to achieve. lt was fitting that the electors of Bendigo should give him their confidence, for it was in that centre that he had his first employment work as a stamp-feeder at the-goldmines.
He had been called to the Victorian Bar when he suggested the elected National Convention which framed the Commonwealth Constitution, and he was knighted in 1901 for his services to Federation. From 1904 until 1907 he was chairman of the Tariff Commission, and was Postmaster-General in the Deakin Ministry for a year, from 1909, resigning from Parliament three years later after 12 years as member for Bendigo.
Sir John Quick was joint author with Sir Robert Garran of "The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth," and with "Sir Littleton Groom, ,M.P., of "The Judicial Power of the Common wealth," both of which are standard constitutional works.

The Argus, 20 June 1932
(Melbourne, Victoria)

OBITUARY
Funeral of Sir John Quick To-day
The funeral of the late Sir John Quick, former deputy president of the Arbitration Court, will be a State one. A service will be held at his home in Moorhouse street, East Camberwell, at a quarter past 9 o’clock this morning, by the Rev. J. A. Gault, and immediately afterward the funeral procession will leave for Bendigo, passing through Bendigo at half-past 1 o’clock to the Back Creek cemetery.
As a mark of respect to the memory of Sir John Quick flags were flown at half-mast on public buildings and other leading institutions in Bendigo. Widespread regret was expressed at his death. Sir John Quick was the founder of the Quarry Hill Golf club, which cancelled all its matches on Saturday. A memorial service was held at the Forest street Methodist Church last night when the Rev. H. W. Frederick, president of the Bendigo Methodist Circuit said that Sir John Quick had been a trustee and member of the Church in Bendigo before he left to live in Melbourne. Mr. Frederick paid a tribute to Sir John Quick’s citizenship and the fine contribution that he had made to the public life of Australia.
Sir John Quick was born at St. Ives, Cornwall and was the vice-patron of the Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset Association of Victoria. The secretary (Mr. G. Gordon Pearce), expressing the regret of the association at Sir John Quick’s death, said, "We have lost an honoured Australian and a good friend."

Contributed by Judy Holman & Bob Bolitho