ROTARIANS' TRIBUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 188, 10 August 1936, Page 8

ROTARIANS' TRIBUTE.

LATE MR. JOHN CLARK. To-day Auckland Rota'rians paid tribute "to the memory of one of their number, the late Mr. John Clark, whose death was announced last week. The president, Rotarian D. Henry, said (using the Rotarian appellation): "John was a member of this club nearly from its inception. He joined in 1922. For the last ten years I came into personal contact with him. During that time John sought to be a Rotarian in every sense of the term. His great idea in life was to render service to others, and from that service he attained happiness. The windows of his soul were brightened up so that he could receive the fellowship of others as some return for the happiness and good fellowship that he possessed in such bounty. We need not grieve over John's decease. Rather should we be thankful that we had him so long as a member, and that his final illness was of such brief duration."

At the president's request members stood for a few moments in silence as a token of esteem for their late member, and as an expression of sympathy with his relatives.

In a musical program me, which followed the formal proceedings, the Lyric Four rendered as a tribute to the late Mr. Clark Van der Water's "Sunset."