ONEHUNGA LOSS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 25 June 1936, Page 10

ONEHUNGA LOSS.

THE JORDAN FAMILY. DEPARTURE FOR LONDON. WARM METHODIST TRIBUTES. The Onehunga Methodist Hall was filled last night by members of the church who gathered to farewell Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P., who is to leave shortly for London to take up the post of High Commissioner for New Zealand. Opportunity was also taken of saying goodbye to Mrs. Jordan and Miss Gwen Jordan. Rev. Mr. E. S. Harkness, who presided, referred to the staunch support given bv Mr. Jordan to the Methodist Church, both in Onehunga and elsewhere, and the outspoken way in which he had always made his convictions known. Messrs. C. E. Goode and A. J. Pople paid hearty tributes to the sterling service of Mr. Jordan as a fellow church trustee and local preacher with them, during the ten years in which hs had been associated with the church in Onehunga.

Mr. R. G. Laking said that, though Mr. Jordan was to take up a position of the greatest honour and responsibility, both as representing New Zealand in London and the British Dominions on the League of Nations council, he would still be "Good Old Bill" to those who had known him for so many years in Onehunga. Mr. R. Thomas referred to old days in Wellington when he and Mr. Jordan were associated as young men in church and temperance work. Mrs. F. W. Mountjoy, speaking on behalf of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, said that she had known Mr. and Mrs. Jordan and their daughter Gwen, as neighbours for many years, and while regretting that they were to leave New.Zealand, slio knew thai they would fill with honour their new position. In replying Mr. Jordan thanked his old friends for the kind references they had made to their long standing, association with him. He was glad to carry such support with him to his new work. Presentations of books were made to Mrs. Jordan by Mrs. Harkness on behalf of tho ladies of Uie church, and to Miss Jordan by her Bible clas3 leader, Miss A. Pople. Mr. R. G. Laking presented Mr. Jordan with a fountain pen.