BUSINESS MEN'S TRIBUTES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19888, 27 March 1930, Page 10

BUSINESS MEN'S TRIBUTES.

PROFESSOR TOCKER AND MR W. H. PRICE. A FAREWELL LUNCHEON. Professor. A. H. Tocker, who holds the Chair of Economics at Canterbury College, and who will represent the New Zealand Government at the International Labour Conference, to be he at Geneva, and Mr W. H. Price, ager of the Union Steam Ship who has been promoted to the managership of the Wellington office, were entertained at luncheon at B&Hantyne s yesterday, by the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. Dr. . Hight, Rector of Canterbury College, and Mr G. Lawn, lecturer in Economies, were also the.guests of the CounThe president of the Chamber, Mr Norton Francis, expressed, on behali of the members of the Council, the great regret they felt at the departure of Mr Price from Christchurch, and congratulated him on his promotion. Ho thanked Mr Price for the valuable work he had done for the Chamber over a period of eight years, particularly with regard to traffic problems. Mr JtTice had been elected annually to the Council since 1922, which was a great record. He had been a hard worker in the interests of the Council, said Mr Francis, and had been attentive to his duties on the various committees. After his long servjpe with the Union Company, it was particularly pleasing to then business munity of Christchurch to hear of his promotion to the Wellington office. The Council also desired to welcome Mr J. H. Greenland, who succeeds Mr Price as manager of the Christchurch office, and who would no doubt represent the company on the Chamber. They all wished Mr Price and his wife and family the best of good luck in the capital city of New Zealand. Mr Francis paid a tribute to Professor Tocker for his work on the Economics Committee of the Chamber, and said that although he would be away for only a comparatively short space of time he would be greatly missed from the committee. Ho also welcomed Dr. Hight and Mr Lawn, the latter as a fellow-worker with Professor Tdcker on tho Economics Committee.

Transport and Publicity. In reply Mr Price thanked the Council for the compliments it had paid him. ll<3 had always been greatly pleased, he said, to be of assistance to the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. He had been struck, when attending committee meetings, with the great amount of energy and thought devoted to the business of the Chamber, by some of the ablest and busiest men in Christchurch. Those men, who were leaders in commercial and professional life, gave their services ungrudgingly for the good of tho Community, without thought of fe<s or reward. He was leaving Christchurch with feelings of regret, for he had made many friends in the City. He had been looking forward to a great deal more work with the Transport and Publicity Committee of the Chamber, aB its activities must have an important bearing upon the future of Canterbury, said Mr Price, and he was sorry to have to leave those matters in an unfinished Btato. He would always take the keenest interest in the affairs of the Chamber.

Mr H. S. E. Turner, vice-president of the Chamber, conveyed to Professor Tocker the thanks of the Chamber for his very valuable work in connexion with the Economics Committee, and the issue, for over five years, of th« bulletin of that committee. They all hoped, said Mr Turner, that Professor Tocker would have a pleasant and profitable trip abroad. Professor T.ocker, in reply, said that his work with the Economics Committee had beon a real pleasure to him, and he was deeply sensible of the assistance he had received from members of the Chamber in his work generally.