FUNERALS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21450, 16 April 1935, Page 10

FUNERALS

MR GEORGE BOWRON

The large crowd of mourners and friends attended the funeral yesterday afternoon of Mr George Bowron, of Hackthcrne road, Cashmere Hills, revealed the very high esteem in which he was held in Christchurch, and the general regret his death has caused. The wide representation of the Methodist Churcn ana its various organisations and of many business firms bore witness .o his popularity as a churchman and as a citizen. Short services were hero yesterday afternoon, both at the house anci at tne graveside in the Sydenham cemetery, the officiating ministers being the Rev. Clarence Eaton and the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, who were assisted by the Rev. E. Drake, the Rev. W. Grigg. and the Rev. H. Ryan. The chief mourners were Mrs Bowron Mr S. Bowron (a brother), Mrs G. T. Lucas fa daughter), Misses E. and W. Bowron (daughters), and Messrs S. G. and F. L. Bowron (sons). The pall-bearers were Messrs W. Morley, G. S. Salter, F. Thompson, H. Holland, M.P., M. Kershaw, and H. de R. Flesher. Among those present were: The Revs. Clarence Eaton, M. A. Rugby Pratt, E. Drake, H. Ryan, I-I. L. Blamires, W. B. Pickering, F. T. Read, F. B. Lawrence, H. S. Kings, J. Featherston. W. Grigg, and W. Rowe, Messrs W A Bascand (Methodist Sunday School Union), P. H. N. Freeth, Nat Woods (Nat Woods and Company), G. K Franklin (Dominion Boot and Shoe Agency), Colonels J. Murphy, H. C. Hurst, and R. C. Wickens, and Mr R. Jamieson (Canterbury Officers' Club), Messrs W. Fenner (Willis and Aiken, Ltd.), H. Hargreaves and G. W. Hargreaves (Walter Hill and Sons), H. Lindsay (Booth, Macdonald and Company, Ltd.), J. D. Hilary (Young Men's Christian Association), C. 11. Virtue (Methodist Sunday School Union), S 1.. Wright and J. Richardson (Woolston Tanneries, Ltd.). S. H. Maddren (Maddren Bros., Ltd.). W. Dobbs (New Zealand Alliance). D. E. Parton and J. H. Kidd (trustees of St. James' Church) D. Gray (Kcmpthorne. Pressor and Company, Ltd), M. Taylor (Harold Lightband, Ltd.), R. Yorston. J. McCree W. Crawford, P. Turnbull, W. G. Fletcher, C. M. Crawford, F. Daniels, and A. Miller (G L. Bowron and Company, Ltd.), J. N. Ormerod (Rocke and Sons, London), N. C. Good (Booth and Company. Ltd.), R. L. Hicks (Hicks and Ainger), the Hon. L. M. Isitt. Messrs J. Murgatroyd, G Murgatroyd, H. W. Heslcis, F. E. Twyford, A. 'F. Wright, J. W. Early, P. P. J Amodeo, A. H. Anthony, F. M. Warren. F. Daniel. J. Voss, J. Trerise. F J Carr A E. Havnes, C. A. Newman. J. G. Hawkins, 11. L. Whiteman, D. G Smith, R. Browning, A. H. Cavell. A. G. S. Gibbs, S. C. Andrews, W. H. Clark N. G. Norbert-Munns, R. E Adair", W. Tuck, R. B. Beals, C. Evans, H. Waldron, W. Campbell, P. Killick, John MacDougall, Lawrence Rudkm, and R. W. Morrow. Wreaths were sent by tne following: The family, Mr and Mrs G. T. Lucas. Mr and Mrs G. Bowron, jun., the Morley family, Miss Mabel Morley. Methodist Women's Auxiliary, the Rev. M. A. Rugbv Pratt and Mrs Pratt the Methodist Church office. Mr and Mrs Tuck, Mr Frank Allen, Mr and Mrs R. B. Beals, Mr R C. Jamieson, Mr

and Mrs Douglas Smith, Mr C. M. Ollivier, Woolston Tanneries, Ltd., Mrs C. Lucas and family, Mrs Trerise and family, Mrs King, teachers and scholars of St. James's Sunday school. St. James's Methodist Church, trustees oi St. James's Church, women of St. James's Church, Methodist Women s Missionary Union executive (Dunedin), Mrs Salter, Mr S. Salter and Miss Ida Salter. Booth and Company (London) G. L. Bowron and Company. Cashmere Reading Circle, manager and staff of the Atlas Assurance Company, Ltd.. president and members of the Canterbury Officers' Club. W. W. Keighley and Company, Ltd., Alex. Turner, directors Duckworth. Turner and Company, Ltd., Mr and Mrs H. Bicknell, members of the Cashmere Sewing Circle, Colonel and Mrs G. J. Smith, Mrs H. Lamb, Harold Lightband, Ltd., Sun Insurance Office, Ltd., and staff, Mr and Mrs J. G. Hawkins. Miss Coleman, Mr and Mrs A. H. Cavell, Mr and Mrs F. E. Twyford, Mr and Mrs PI. W. Bush, Durham Street Methodist Church, Hicks and Ainger, H. Matson and Company, manager and staff of Kempthorne, Prosser and Company, Ltd. "Mr and Mrs and Miss Borrows, Mr and Mrs John Tapley, Mr and Mrs W. H. Clark, Christchurch Plunket nurses, Pizzey, Mclnnes and Company, Frank Jagger and Company (Auckland), board of managers of the South Island Orphanage and Children's Home, H. Vale arid Company, Ltd., boys and girls of the Methodist Orphanage staff of the Methodist Orphanage, Mr and Mrs A. E. Haynes, and Mr and Mrs H. M. Jarden. MR LOUIS CORONER Business premises in Rakaia were closed for a considerable period yesterday, while families in and around the township attended the funeral of Mr Louis Cordner, of Fendalton, who was until last year manager of the Rakaia branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. In addition to Rakaia families a large number of city friends attended the funeral, which left Mr Cordner's home in Clyde road, Fendalton, early yesterday morning for the Rakaia Cemetery. The funeral was the largest there has been in Rakaia for years, and was ample evidence of the high regard in which Mr Cordner was held by the people of the district, and his friends in other parts of Canterbury.

The service at the house was conducted by the Rev. F. B. Redgrave, and at the graveside by the Rev. H. A. Barnett..

The chief mourners were Mrs Cordner, Mr E. J. Cordner, Misses E. and M. E. Holmes, and Mrs C. Buchanan. The pall-bearers at the house and graveside were Messrs C. Featnerstpne, A. Doig. J. C. Doig. S. G. Holmes, H. A. Smith, and J. Langley. Wreaths were sent by the following:—Mrs Cordner, Eileen and Peggy Holmes, Auntie Hardy, Flo and Arthur Seymour, Ada and Malcolm Powrie, Pat and Derrick Powrie, Reda and Cecil May, Terence Pam, and Gwenda May, Ethel and Ned Cordner, the Buchanan family, Auntie and Uncle (Mr and Mrs P. B. Hume), Nurse Nee, Dee Lyttelton, Beatrice and Joan, Mr and Mrs C. C. Holmes, Mr and Mrs S. G. Holmes, Nat and Cis Holmes, Mr J. G. S. Holmes and Mr W. Harrison, Quita and Sheila Cordner, Peg and Lois, Helen and Graham Holmes, Mr and Mrs V. C. McPhail, Mr and Mrs J. C. Lochhead and John, Dr. and Mrs Sheffield, Miss Cherry Smith, Mrs Appleby, Mr and Mrs A. R.- Larcombe and girls, Joy and Trevor Thomas, Mr and Mrs A. P. Bruce, Mr and Mrs John Halliday and family, Mr and Mrs A. S. Nicholls, Mr H. Harrison and Miss Harrison, Mr R. E. Proctor and Bessie, Mrs A. J. Magson and

family, Mr and Mrs J. C. Irwin, Mr and Mrs George Hardy, Mr and Mrs Jim Langley and family, Mr and Mrs Broughton, Miss H. Langley, Milner, Pamela, and Dawn Doig, Mr and Mrs W. Sherlock and family, Mr and Mrs Andrew Doig, Mr and Mrs J. Gabites and Aunt Nell, Margaret and Lindsay, Mr and Mrs C. E. Featherstone and family, Mrs W. Anderson, Birdie Ferguson, Mr and Mrs L. A. Oakley, Alister Oakley, Mr and Mrs W. H. Meyer;, Mr and Mrs Joseph Langley, Mr and Mrs C. H. Clemens and Noeline, Rod and Hazel Youngman, Mr and Mrs S. Connolly, Mr and Mrs J. Connolly, Mr and Mrs StefJano Webb, Mr P. J. Hanrahan, Mrs Fleming and Gwen, John and Norah, Mr and Mrs Carrigan, "Holmeslea" employees, Rakaia Golf Club, Rakaia Bowling Club, Rakaia Football Club, Rakaia Returned Soldiers' Association, Rakaia Boxing Club, Rakaia Domains Board, Rakaia Athletic and Cycling Club, Rakaia Ploughing Match Committee, chairman and members South Rakaia Road Board, Rakaia Tennis Club, Rakaia Ladies' Hockey Club, manager and staff New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Union Assurance Society, Mr W. Hopwood (Rakaia Motor Transport Service).