POPULAR OFFICER HONOURED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 15

POPULAR OFFICER HONOURED

- 4 ‘§ ' Court officials awl u - the legal profession paid warm tributes yesterday mornlng to Mr B. -f chief traffic inspector: to the city for many years, When he imdg law ~ SSSSjft : Messrs H. A. Young, E. C. Lewey,and F. F. Reid, were on the bench. Mr K. M. Gresson, who represented the Canterbury Law Society, raid that during fee long period over which Mr. Macintosh had controlled the traffic of the city, the traffic had increased enormously and the traffic Ptebtemsjmd . become intensified. Among fee mem* bers of the legal profession, Mr Macintosh bore the envffible reputMMseC being fair, reasonable; andunswefOT^.. [ That reputation would not have been - acquired had'he not served it. All desired Cbristohiffdi to IS a safe place for men and women and vehicles to move about m, aad fed more road users were disciplmm W be, Sd Sd alert the less likely wM there to be a needless waste of life. ■ He wished Mr Macintosh a very happy arul .well-earned rest. ' ' ’ ■ _ Mr F. W. Johnston, who spokeas a former president of: the Canterbunr^ Law Society, the Automobile Aasocmtion, and fee Soufe Isl^jMoto* Union, said that-e had always been impressed wife llr Macintosh s- • impartiality. Mr W. R. Carey. a A former president of fee Automobile Association, also wished tp be associated with fee wishes extended to, Mr Macintosh forvlong life and happiness, said. Mr, Johnston. • . , C;-'-? Mr E, C; Lewey, S.M., referred the' thoroughness, impartiality, ana,,-,' v. coolness which -had always ised Mr Macintosh's work in These, qualities, he said, had been . chief reasons for Mr hfficmtoshs sug-, • cess as a prosecutor. The nrngi^nmr:|^ ; . of the, city hoped feat Mr MacmrosKP;. Sfe retirement would be a real after his many years of . Mr Macintosh, to good wishes of his friends malhe ■ feanked the police tod of fee Law Society - tion they liad always jgffiraßtE was glad to know feat feefefgtoj^ Of fee city were satuffied - he i had earned out ms “Age will tell, and to its wisdom has to retire and appoint young officer. With all fee Tatest said Mr Macintosh. “I hope, whoe^m=.i, fcijj he may be, you all wiU «tend the same courtesies you haveieirttod^q to me.”