FUNERAL OF LATE MR LAWRENCE BIRKS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18138, 30 July 1924, Page 2

FUNERAL OF LATE MR LAWRENCE BIRKS.

Tbe deep esteem in which the late Mr Lawrence Birks, at the time of his dea th chief electrical engineer of the Public Works Department, was held, both in professional circles and among u, manv private frieads, „„ Sunday by the great attendance at the funeral and at the graveside at Karori The cortege, which was over IL in length, included representaa f manv public bodies, of tiovtives °' n-enLs and personal ernm.nt aepa f Many SloS, Sre f the S.a«J r % < tle m c U T B L^e r A. I ftu™< K E Ste Dr. E. H. of the dece»ff>. , 3 Birks, and the four orphan chddrß F. e W. Furß - %. in 'chief Public Works Department. E. A. Shrimpton, Chief Telegraphic Engineer, M. Cable, hS Manager of City Tramway E. Hit hcock, General Manager Electricity Department, Christchurch, and F. T. M. KisSl, Electrical En-neeer. Public Works Department. th ° se pr^ I «int were the Mayor, Mr K. A. ! Wright, M P, Mr J. R. Palmer (Town Clerk) City Councillors H. J>- Bennett T. Forsyth, W. J. Gaudm, Drs. Patie Herbert and Ewart, Colonel J. J Esson, Secretary to the Treaeury, Mr 0 N. Pragnall, Mayor of Masterton Mr T. R. Cress well, headmaster Bovs' College, Wellington, representatives of the Canterbury College School of Engineering (where Mr , B '[ ks "?. s at one time a professor), and the rmi-osophi-al Institute of Canterbury, lhe following members of Parliament were nresent:—Messrs J. Macmillan (Tauranga), H. E. Holland (leader of the Labour Party), and P. Fraser (Wellington Central). Sir John Luke, who is absent from the Dominion, was renresented by Mr P. S. Lukei The Wellington Philosophical Society, the Rotary Club, the v*f.q.4.. the Wo«lineton and Welleslpy and other cluhfi were each representee!, as were several other inst'tnfions with the late Mr Birks had been connected.