FUNERAL

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21639, 25 November 1935, Page 13

FUNERAL

♦ MR GEORGE WATSON The funeral of Mr George Watson, who died last week, was held on Saturday at the Bromley cemetery. Representatives of commercial travellers' associations, the Returned Soldiers' Association, and of many business firms were present, as well as many friends. The long line of cars which took part in the procession was evidence ■of Mr Watson's wide circle of acquaintances, both in business and private life, who held him in high esteem. The services at the house and the graveside were conducted by the Rev. A. C. Watson. The pall-bearers at the house were Messrs G. E. King (president, Commercial Travellers' Association), G. H. Christie (past president), H. H. Wauchop (United Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association), H. Fleck, S. Myers, and E. P. Willcox (representatives of the Returned Soldiers' Association). Those at the graveside were Messrs J. Anderson, G. A'Court, B. Stafford, N. McGillivray, J. Marshall, and J. C. Hewertson. The chief mourners were Mr and Mrs S. Minn (Dunedin), Nurse Gold, Miss E. Duff, Messrs James Watson (Masterton), J. C. Hewertson, and J. Anderson. • Among those present were Messrs Norton Francis (chairman of directors, Mason, Struthers and Company, Ltd.), T. W. Lewis (director) and V. Hamilton (manager), Colonel J. Murphy, Messrs C. R. Smith (disabled soldiers), O. F. Thornton (commercial travellers' club), A. Tisch, E. Purcell, W. Parks, W. Andrew, S. Williams and L. A. Shand (Iron and Steel Company), F. | R. Kemp (Hardware Association and Ashby, Bergh and Company, Ltd.), A. Russell, A. E. Hooper, G. W. Bradshaw, S. J. Highstead, W. Fenner, J. S. Kelly, G. H. Congreve, H. Pearce, C. R. W. Brooks, A. Edwards, A. Annan (A- J. White, Ltd.), W. Wallace, H. C. Elliott, A. L. Alexander, L. J. Taylor, G. H. Christie, A. S. Mazey (Commercial Travellers' Association), G. Vial (Otago Commercial Travellers' Association), R. D. Cameron, J. Benges, W. A. Erasmuson, H. Dunford, R. M. Muskett, A. F. W. Jones, J. W. Francis, W. Stanton, M. Welsman, H. Luxton, T. J. Tucker, A. M. West (Bunting and Company), E. W. Turton, F. H. Ansley, L. Moss, H. Grimes, T. Aspell, T. Mann, W. Minchin, J. Chambers, D. A. Russell, Francis Willis, E. Hammond, V. J., W. A., and F. E. Drake, M. G. Collie, R. E. Fisk, C. Chambers, R. Stewart, A. Killner, E. Lockwood, W. A. Poison, C. Chisnall (Returned Soldiers' Association), S. Balfour, P. R. Quartermain, W. S. Harper, H. and C. Stafford, J. A. Jewell, A. Turnwald, J. Sullivan, K. N. McGillivray, W. R. Crompton, T. Prosser, J. Mills, J. T. Dixon, A. H. Manson, E. H. Miller, H. McDonald, W. Hargreaves, W. Brittenden, P. E. Clark, W. W. Stuart (New Zealander Farmers), J. K. Newton, \V. Wells, H. B. and E. H. Smith, J. Crombie, H. S. J. Goodman, J. Tindall, G, E. A., and J. W. Trist, J. Meikle, L. S. Ayres, W. G. Williams, J. McLaren, B. J. Midgely, H. L. Babington, St. J. J. Dunne, H. Bromley, J. Hay, H. F. Harm a, T. Grant, A. L. Tucker, W. B. Mackenzie, T. Grimley, G. H. Davis, A. Woodham, N. Hewertson, D. Edmonds, j N. A. Sharp. G. B. McDiarmid, and j J. Orton. Mr W. Morley, who was unable to be present, sent his vacant car. Wreaths were sent by Mr and Mrs Hewertson and family, Mr and Mrs S. D. Minn and Mary and Jim, Nurse Gold and Miss Duff, Messrs J. E. Anderson and W. Morley, Messrs Harrop, Hooper, and Miss Jones, Mr and Mrs A. Russell, Mrs McClurg, Winnie and Arthur, United Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, Mrs E. Hislop (Wellington), Ella, Hardware Department, New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative, Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, Canterbury Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Assotion, Auckland Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, "Restar," Ltd., Mr and Mrs G. E. King and family. Otago Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, president and committee, Canterbury Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, Mr and Mrs W. Stanton, Mr and Mrs N. A. Sharp and family. Mr and Mrs Frank MacDonald, Christchurch Commercial Travellers' Association, Susie and Dick Saker (Wellington), the Stafford family, Mr and Mrs H. Pearce, Mr and Mrs A. F. W. Jones, Miss M. Wood, J. W. Francis and Son, V. E. Hamilton and the directors of Mason, Struthers and Company, Ltd., Mr and Mrs N. McGillivray, Mr and Mrs K. N. McGillivray, Mr and Mrs J. Marshall, Mr and Mrs Wells, Mr and Mrs Blakeley, Mr Wark, Mr and Mrs G. B. MacDiarmid, staff of Mason, Struthers and Company. Ltd., Christchurch Hardware Association, Mr and Mrs H. Wilson, Mr John Orr (Ashburton), Mr and Mrs Bradshaw. Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr W. L. King, Mr N. Flewellyn and family, and Mr and Mrs J. W. Trist.