MR T. C. LIST

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21247, 20 August 1934, Page 12

MR T. C. LIST

I ♦ j FUNERAL SERVICE ROTAKJANS' TRIBUTE j A funeral service for Mr T. C. List was held at, St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. Wellington, on Saturday. There was a large attendance of members of the Wellington Rotary Club, and amongst those present were representatives of the Legislature, the and the commercial community. Canon James, who conducted the service, paid a tribute to the memory of Mr List, speaking not onjy as vicar oi St. Paul's, but also as a 'Rotarian. "With tragic suddenness, so that we can scarcely believe it," he said, ' our brother T. C. List has been taken from us. A few days ago he came to this city as Governor of Rotary in I\ew Zealand. He had completed his teini —a distinguished term of oflice, but with characteristic sense of duty he took up the burden again until his successor's health should be restored. 'T.C.* died in harness, and as we remember him presiding in the assembly a dav or two ago in the fullness ol his powers, with an infectious keenness that spread from him through the whole assembly, we echo those ancient words, 'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like hi a' His personality was strong and attracl ive; but personal influence depends upon what a man is. 'T.C. wan a good man—sincerity shone in his face, moral earnestness rang in uic tones of his voice as he declared his conviction—many hearers remember—that the hope of a better world lay in our following the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount. The ideals of service and brotherhood of which he snoke he strove to follow in his own life, both in his profession and along many avenues of public service. Work for Crippled Children "Nearest to his heart." said Canon James, "wa c the welfare of the crippled children in New Zealand. He gave the last months of his life to pleading their cause—planning and working for them. It is enough lor a man that such work should be his memorial. To us his death is a tragic In?k. To his nearest and dearest we oiler our tendcrest sympathy. Let us not think of him—it is not possible to think of him —tfs dead. He is alive -alive unto God in the higher life, in the larger fellowship beyond, hearing Ihe words of the Divine Master who has prepared for him new and greater opportunities of service, done. ! thou good and faithful servant.'" ! The chief mourner nt the funeral i r-rviee was Mr J. W. C. List (brother ; of Mr T. C. List), of Lower Hutt. The i pall-bearers were past-presidents of ! 1 lie Wellington Rotary Club —Sir Alexj soder Roberts, Messrs D. A. Ewen, D. J. MeGowan. E. W. Hunt, Dr. F. W. Bowerbank. and Mr H. G. Teagle. Amongst tho.-e present were:--The Rt. Hon. G. \V. Forbes (Prime Minister), the Hon. R. Masters (Leader of the Legislative Council). Messrs Walter ',\v!i. M.l'.. K. Campbell 'president, WMlinuton Rotary Club*. N. Hell. A. W. Hawley, ('. W. Salmon. W. H. Earn- |: haw. It. A mo,-. C. \V. Budd, J. T. Marj : .1. John My<ers, J. T. Inkers-ell. W. G. ! Recs-Jonrs. N. W. Stevens. W. P. i Walker. Dr. Alex. Gillies. Messrs D. C. Peacock, M. E. Denniston, L. J. Green - jhi rg. H. H. Newton, E. P. Hay, A. | Fletcher. F. C. Spratt, A. Longmore, A. i G. McGowan, S. B. Harris. G. Gore, I Vv". Gray Young, E. A. Blundell, J. jl'otl. J. An. tad. J. Annand-Smith, A. Ml. Lane, K. Harper. J. Baldwin. R. ! Cable, J. W. Carr, Tooniath. D. MeKenj ■■■]'.'. R. L. Button. A. A. Cramond. N. j !!. Gibbons. F. R. Jones, W. A. MnrI ' n. J. C. Riddell. D, H. Taylor. J. M. j Th(.mpson, H, Vickerman. P. C, Watt, !('. E. Wheeler. P. E. Pattrick. and F. | Feist. ' '1 he following '-able messi'ic lias been j i 'reived from headquarters of Rotary i lull niational (Clvoagm: -"All Rotary i -. M mourn pa-.«;n'4 of that '-.real man : • i i•-•(<. emed comrade. Tom L ; --t. Mn-< ■i;i|;at hei ie eonUwlcnce.- .'am sly ami Mellow Rotarians. —Chesi.ey Perry, j Jle:;c!<-|nartcr:- ecretaiy." ; A N El. SON TRIBUTE NELSON. August la. j Mr \V. A. Armstrong, president of the Nelson Rotary Club, said to-day: "Tin- news of the sudden death of Mr T. C. LLt will come as a very great shock to every Rotarian in New Zealand as well as to many in other parts of the world. As governor of the tiftv-third (New Zealand) district. .\lr_Li.-t had personally endeared himm 11 to every member with whom he Had come in contact, and by means <>i hi.-. vcrv able control of organisation iiad earned the respect and admiration jol members. I know ol no man in the Rotary movement who will be so much iniiM'd as Mr List, but he lived right up to the end in the full spirit of the rotarian motto: 'Service above self.'" j .. ..