OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18486, 14 September 1925, Page 6

OBITUARY.

"« J OHN MWSO#f! I - ' life ■& SECRETARY N. Z . irsEss assocutk,* Waart WELMNXJTOX, Tho death is announoedToTSeSL , John Dawson, general secretatTrfA^J New Zedand Alliance.jKl^l widow, uuo so*; and tuo

—*" * M Tho luto Mr Dawson *** bJ, ij there until *« umr^M> "EXft*** i iioss days he was rnmiuvo JMcthoaut Uufch M*'l a scholar in the West l*L school, and at 1. jeaia or urnSSP a iWrvo Aleuiooist taJIBHtI At 21 years of ago ho went ttfi?sjK%l evangelist. liomg deSJW £ more tuny quaJiiwd lor tosKSfe about three yean, m lSt udy J time Cliff college Has missionary institute, controlled; Gratton Guinness, and was ~-Ksfok candidate for tho Pttmuw2MHs& T llst T y ' volunteered for i^ where at tho call of the Cburif tgl conference seat Hm to KeTz*l2t\ where he arrived m 18a™h*?XS* ready spent seven" j ears as T*t2& gelist and student in Enriand Kwlfflh years ho was in the acfcfeTok Xlff Primitive Methods nlSiSlf W land, during which Umo ha fiS? almost every portion of leadttaßs- - it ww posß.blo for . cuj»y He was book 8 school secretary, Building Comnffisecretary, and ConfenHj It was in 1894, w hca atatiottSSal Chnstchurch; that he oatucTffi contact with the leaders of £ H paratively mwly-born Prohibition S ment He had always fought tbetitf&i trade by gand of Hope anTtemwSSi work. *rom that time beanlS comradeship wiih the t SJS ? rhioh till hia ft&afg! n , 189 \ ho was stationed w WeJu'BtJ&iS and remained twelve years in *n%j|Pl circuit. As the years passed'be bftmsij an increasing power at tho bolddtSSEPj of the Prohibition years he was chairman of the AUfcnrf r3 Executive, then in 19Q0 he teeMtH&*i natural successor to Frypfcffi, timZi when he retired from general secretary for the Al&St*.' Jjj|| 4 Church, while regretting to lt*e bii ijh 1 vices as a successful puiof; WHfijflr ' set him free as a muusterVthottTK ' toral charge, so that hiHnigiHjrtCS the Dominion in a wider spheh>„T9t For more than 16 years he hjf&aiL*! > pied the position of schawl for the New Zealand were few roeil in New Zeeitw<Mß@ r known that the Rev. John man in tile Dommion had intimate knowledge of the &VwßMst% movement, for close upon igaUS®? of a centnry he had been in tMSJEK. bies" of the Houee of the House when N lioeneing was under discussion. brought him in contact iR-ors, Cabinet Ministers/ wSBKBsS& Parharaeht and heads of ffiffffMfSf and liy his tact and > tained the respect of In 1921, as lie was wWM| the physical strain of medical advinors and that a long rest was neo^|BßMps^a companied by his wife trip to Europe. While ayjmlgiffl^ Bented New Zealand at WwsMßm% greases, and on his wajr'honJßJMß-1 the working, of- FtAMkb. '^HK I Since his return had not been very' 1 robnm. ago, knowing thai lrfA^^l«ttWlßb : he gave to on. the subject whi^^H^BKnK

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