MAYOR TO EX-MAYOR.
TRIBUTE TO WAR WORK. "I could wish that Sir James were Mayor of Auckland now," remarked Sir Ernest Davis at to-day's annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Belief Association. The Mayor was paying a tribute to the work of Sir James Gunson, president of the association, wjio was Mayor of Auckland during the, Great War. He said that he *? 1?l ffiMW » asißtn ppioAi aq paAauaq the Mayoralty than he himself was able to do. Sit Ernest recalled having worked under Sft , James in the war days and could not: now forget his heroic inspiration. He hoped he was taking a small leaf from "Sir James' book. As patron of the association he asked the mover of a motion thanking the president for his work %nd paying high tribute to him to allow him to p'ut the motion, which was jcarried by acclamation. In his jreply Sir James Gunson stressed the| need for standing together to the end—lwhich, he declared, "is certainly not y*t."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 4
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